UPCOMING DATES:
THE NIGHT ALPHABET TOUR DATES
Ticket links will be added soon!
FULL SHOW, DIRECTED BY NEIL BARTLETT
PRODUCED BY TOM MACANDREW
LAUNCH:
FEBRUARY 16 2024 7.30PM QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL Southbank Centre, London SE1. Full show with interview and book signing
Masterclass dates below.
FEB 16 2024 LONDON, Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre
APR 11 2024 HEBDEN BRIDGE, TRADES HALL 7.30pm
APR 17 2024 NORWICH ARTS CENTRE, Norwich
APR 21 2024 BRISTOL, Lyra Festival
MAY 24 2024 BRiGHTON Festival
MAY 25 2024 BRiGHTON Festival
MAY 30 2024 LIVERPOOL WoWFEST
JULY 26 2024 LATITUDE FESTIVAL
SEPT 6 2024 ISLE OF ARAN, STONEWATER POETRY PRIZE & ARAN PRIDE (info forthcoming)
READING TOUR:
FEBRUARY 4 2024 – NORWICH, TOAST
FEBRUARY 21 2024 - KENT UNIVERSITY
FEBRUARY 22 2024 - BATH, TOPPINGS
FEBRUARY 23 2024 - FAVERSHAM LIT FEST
FEBRUARY 26 2024 – ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY
MARCH 2 2024 - HUNGERFORD
MAY 8 2024 - EDINBURGH, TOPPINGS
JUNE 1 2024 – OUT AND WILD FESTIVAL, WALES
INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
For international festivals and events please contact tour Producer Tom MacAndrew
14-16 MARCH 2024 SWEDEN
20-23 MARCH 2024 NETHERLANDS
MARCH/ APRIL 2024 AUSTRALIA. Poet in Residence, Queensland Poetry Festival, plus short tour
NIGHT ALPHABET MASTERCLASS DATES
check back for further dates
FEBRUARY 11 2024 LONDON, Southbank Centre 1-4pm
APRIL 19 2024 BRISTOL, Arnolfini Theatre
MAY 22 2024 LIVERPOOL, Toxteth Library
MAY 24 2024 BRIGHTON, Brighton Dome
PREVIOUS EVENTS:
OCTOBER 14 2023 COAST IS QUEER FESTIVAL BRIGHTON, Attenborough Centre
OCTOBER 16 2023 7.30pm Host of FORWARD PRIZE READINGS (with Bernardine Evaristo) LEEDS, Playhouse
OCTOBER 26 2023 7.45pm OUT-SPOKEN Live, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London SE1.
NOVEMBER 2nd – DECEMBER 17th KOESTLER EXHIBITION, 'IN CASE OF EMERGENCY'. London, Southbank Centre, SE1
NOVEMBER 11 2023 Queen Mary University, London. Key Note Speach
NOVEMBER 16 2023 Bad Betty Press, Rough Trade, Nottingham
NOVEMBER 19 2023 TODMORDEN BOOK FESTIVAL Feature event C+NTO & Othered Poems
NOVEMBER 22 2023 University of East Anglia, Norwich. Archive project readings
NOVEMBER 24 2023 POLARI PRIZE CEREMONY British Library, London. The announcement of the UK's only LGBT literature awards
NOVEMBER 25 - 27 2023 PUSH THE BOAT OUT FESTIVAL Edinburgh
NOVEMBER 30 2023 OUT-SPOKEN Live, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London SE1.
Australia Tour 2019
Adelaide Writers Festival
March 02: Writing The Self
March 03: Poetry Slam
March 03: Queerstories
March 04: Key performance (with Ben Okri)
March 05: Twilight Sessions, Telling Truths
March 07: Solbar, Sunshine Coast - Workshop & Performance
March 08: Queensland Poetry Festival reading
March 08: Ruckus Slam
March 09: School of Hard Knocks
March 11: Canberra, That Poetry Thing - Workshop & performance
Australia 2018
August 22: Queensland Poetry Festival. The Zoo, Brisbane
August 23: Queensland Poetry Festival. Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane
August 26: Horizon Festival Workshop. Solbar, Maroochydore
August 28: Bankstown Poetry Slam. Bankstown Arts Centre, Bankstown
August 29: Sounds On The Terrace. Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney
August 29: Word Travels Workshop. Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney
August 29: Alternator Poetry. The Dust Temple, Curumbin Waters
September 01: Horizon Festival. The Bunker, Eumundi
Spring/ Summer 2018
April 11: Chelping, Leeds Library 8pm
April 22: Tate Modern 3pm, Feminist Library Take Over
April 26-28: Gutun Zuria, Bilboa Literature Festival, Spain
May 8th: Oxford University. Panel and readings, with Simon Armitage, Bernadine Everisto and Rebecca Watts. Panel discussion: accessibility in poetry.
May 9th-13th: Tartu slam finals, Estonia Literature Festival
May 15th: Bath LGBTQ Festival (venue tbc)
May 18th: Superjam! 50 Years of Radical Voices, British Library
May 19th: Bang Said the Gun, Brighton
May 20: Milk, Tobacco Factory, Bristol BS1
June 7-10th: Anniki Festival, Finland
June 14th: Roundhouse Slam, Roundhouse Theatre – host 7.30pm
June 15th: Brighton University 7pm
June 21: Home and Exile, Peckham Pelican 7pm
June 29th: Ledbury Festival with Sabrina Mahfouz 9pm
July 27-29: WOMAD Festival, UK
August 17th: 6pm Babble On, Edinburgh (feature show with Matt Abbott)
August 17th: 9pm Edinburgh International Book Festival with Out-Spoken Press
2017
January 30th: - Uni Slam event - performance and judging
July 11: – Bournemouth, Word Makers: Chaplin’s Cellar Bar 529 Christchurch Road BH1 4AG 7.30pm
July 16: – Walthamstow Garden Party 4.30pm
July 18: – Canterbury Parade Room, 1 Pound Lane, Canterbury – with Sabrina Mahfouz
July 19: – London Launch @ Out-Spoken, 100 Club, with Salena Godden, Anthony Anaxagorou, Sabrina Mahfouz and Karim Kamar £10 (free copy of the book for all ticket holders)
July 20: – Bristol Launch @Raise the Bar, The Crofters Rights 117-119 Stokes Croft Bristol BS1 3RW with Danny Pandolfi, Sabrina Mahfouz and Gecko
July 21: – Stamford Arts Centre with Charley Genever
July 22: – Poem-a-Thon for Refugees at Poetry Café, Covent Garden, London
July 24: – Blacks Club, Soho, London hosted by Sophia Blackwell
July 26: – For Books Sake (What She Said) The Book Club, 100-106 Leonard Street, EC2A 4RH
July 31: – Polari Southbank Centre with Paul Burston, Rosie Wilby, Alys Fowler, James Maker & James Wharton
August 3: – Middlesbrough book launch at Electric Kool Aid Cabaret, in MIMA with Andy Willoughby and Bob Beagrie
August 4: – Lipped Ink @ The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London Wc2H 9BX
August 12: – Diversity Slam with Neanderthal Bard
2016
August 26-28 the Shambala Festival:
Friday 26: 6.15pm - Rebel Soul stage
Saturday 27: 12-1.30pm - Slam Poetry Workshop, Wandering Word stage
Sunday 28: 1pm Chai Walla stage (tbc) as part of Shambala Slam
Sunday 28: 6.20pm - Wandering Word stage
September 9: 6.30pm Asterism launch, Laudanum Press. Betsy Trotwood 56 Farringdon Rd, London EC1R 3BL
September 20: 7.30pm Write Angle Poetry -The Townhouse, Petersfield.
September 22: 7pm £5 Polari – Bishop Stortford Library, Bishop Stortford – Polari on tour with Paul Burston.
September 23: RAP Party FREE Farmopolis, The Jetty, North Greewich, London SE10 0JF, with Adam Kammerling, Joshua Idehen, Theresa Lola, Inua Ellams and others.
October 3: 11.30-12.15pm Page Fright performance Bath Children’s Literature Festival, Guildhall, Bath
October 3: evening London Laureate launch (details tbc)
October 5: 7.30pm Bang Said the Gun, Leicester Square Theatre, Leicester Square, London with Murray Lachlan Young and Harry Baker
October 6: National Poetry Day (watch this space)
October 8: 7pm Mother Foucault at Cheltenham Literary Festival (venue TBC)
October 9: 7pm Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury launch of Word Warrior interactive exhibition
October 19: 5.30pm Brunel University
October 30: 100 Club FREE 5pm 100 Oxford Street, London WC1 SLAMbassadors Showcase gig with Lemn Sissay
November 3: 7.30pm The Youth Word Up! Hubs, Sheffield Hallam University Student’s Union, Paternoster Row, S1. Admission free, Booking essential Tel. 0114 273 4400
November 11-13th: Finland Turku Poetry Festival. Range fo venues including Bari Bari, Turku Library and Festival Closing Event.
November 18th: William Morris Gallery Launch of protest poster event. 6.30pm Free.
November 30th: Out Spoken at Forge, Camden - host of show featuring INJA, Yomi Sode, Amina Jama plus the collective Anthony Anaxagorou, Karim Kamar, Sam Junior Bromsfield, Assupta Ouza.
December 8th: Pete (the Temp) Bearder book launch Numbered Boxes event Hive, Dalston 8pm
December 13th: Mother Tongue Other Tongue slam event Cambridge University 4pm. Free.
December 14th: Proseand, Canterbury. Headline act. 7pm
December 15th: Chill Pill, Albany Theatre, Deptford. The Big One. 7.30pm
December 20th: Pentonville Prison SLAM event - performance and judging. Tickets available for poets and arts workers -contact me directly for tickets by December 10th.