Events

Upcoming

Please contact me if your group, bookshop or organisation would like to arrange a reading or a workshop.

13 December 2026, 3:00pm -5:00pm, Event in memory of Dr Ruth Kiew – poetry reading and speakers (more details to come), Sunda Shelves, No. 32 (1st floor, Jalan SS 20/10, Damansara Kim, 47400 Petaling Jaya
30 November 2026, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, The Universe is an Animal: Jessica Mookherjee’s Book Launch – with guests Matthew Caley, L Kiew, Cheryl Moskowitz and Catherine Smith, The Poetry Society cafe, 22 Betterton St, London WC2H 9BX

Previous months

7 July 2026, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, Nine Arches Press Eco-poetics and the Environment Workshop series, L Kiew: Plant/a(ction): garden escapes (online)
25 June 2026, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, European Poetry Festival: Austrian Poetry Celebration, Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, London SW7 1PQ. Tickets are free and can be booked here
1 June 2026, 7:00pm – 8:00pm, Nine Arches Press Eco-poetics and the Environment Masterclass series – L.Kiew: Rewilding Gardens in Poetry (online)
14 April 2026, 6:00pm – 8:30pm, MODRON London event, The Lumen, 88 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9RS
26 March 2026, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, Wild Women Writers’ Salon: Where the Wild Things Grow – Weeds, wildflowers, and finding home in the wild edges. With L Kiew, Anna Chapman, Brigit Anna McNeill and Jenny Knight (online).
21 February 2026, 10:00am – 4:00pm, Poetry Spa at Bantock House, Wolverhampton: an immersive day of reading & writing, with poet L Kiew alongside Poetry Spa host, Roz Goddard. Brought to you by Nine Arches Press and the WM Readers’ Network. Booking details and full programme can be found here
18 October 2025, 5:00pm – 6:30 pm, Women Poets’ Network – Poet to Poet workshop: Writing Beyond the Human-self (online)
25 September 2025, 7:30pm – 9:00pm, Past Margins Into Wilds: A Malaysia-UK Poetry Showcase. With Nina Mingya Powles, L Kiew, Suyin Du Bois and Yee Heng Yeh. Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London, WC2H 9BX
25 June 2025, 7:00pm, European Poetry Festival: Cypriot Poetry Celebration, High Commission Of Cyprus 13 St James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LB.
30 November 2024, Reading with Poetry Lab Shanghai, as part of Global Reading for Freedom of Expression and in Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon
17 November 2024, 7:30pm, Venn Diagrams #14 curated by Patrizia Longhitano, reading with Jennifer Wong and open mic’ers, Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, London, tickets on the door
6 November 2024, 7:00pm, ‘Botany’: Molecules Unlimited online meeting #7, click here for further details
3 October 2024, 6:30-8:00pm, New and local voices in poetry for National Poetry Day: To risk or not to risk? A collaborative exploration, Quay Words at Exeter Custom House, Exeter Quayside, EX2 4AN
4 September 2024, 8:00-9:15pm, Special Edition: ‘Other Languages, Othered Worlds’, National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London
22 July 2024, 8:00-9:00pm, What We Read Now online event with Shirley Geok-Lim, Jennifer Wong and Tim Tim Cheng
27 June 2024, 6:00pm, Red Bean Poetry: Ecopoetry, online (click here for further details)
22 June 2024, 7:30pm, European Poetry Festival: Swiss Poetry Celebration, Rich Mix Art Centre, London
2 June 2024, 7:00-9:00pm, The Alchemy Spoon: issue 12 launch, online
19 April 2024, 7:00pm, Magma 88: Underworld issue launch, Royal Geographical Society, London
17 April 2024, 17:00 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) 22:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), More than Weeds: Art-centred seed and skill session, The Nature of Cities Festival, online
20 March 2024, 5:00pm, Modernity and Crisis: a Poetry London event, Goldsmiths, University of London, SE14 6NW (free, in-person)
19 October 2023, 7:30pm – 9:30pm, Corrupted Poetry: Language is the seed, Bloomsbury Festival, The Art Workers’ Guild – Main Hall, London
21 September 2023, ‘Telling our colonial story;: ESEA Authors LitFest event, in ESEA Heritage Month
12 September 2023, Lumen Poetry, 88 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9RT, 6pm
8 September 2023, ‘Ecopoetics: on Ecology & Apocalypse’ poetry published by Nine Arches Press reading at Toppings Bookshop, Bath
19 July 2023, 7:00pm-9:00pm, All Keyboards are Legitimate: Versions of Jules Laforgue London launch, Chener Books, London
8 July 2023, 7.30pm – 9:00pm, Save me a Seat festival, Manchester
22 June 2023, 7:00pm-9:00pm, Celebrating 15-years of Nine Arches Press, Voce Books, Birmingham
18 June 2023, 6:30pm-7:30pm, Where We Find Ourselves reading, Round Table Books, Brixton, London
27 May 2023, 8:00pm-10:00pm, This Land is our Land: exploring access to the outdoors through lenses of disability, race, migration and land rights, Sheaf Poetry Festival, Sheffield
27 April 2023, 7:45pm- 9,15p, Shore Poets, The Waverley Bar, Edinburgh
24 April 2023, 6:30pm-8:30pm Lyric Earth poetry reading with Devon Walker-Figueroa, Justin Birmingham, Samuel Tongue, Maria Sledmere & Patrick Errington, Good Press Gallery, Glasgow
22 April 2023, 7:30pm -10:00pm, Norwegian Poetry Celebration, European Poetry Festival at Iklectik Artlab
23 March 2023, 7:00pm – 10:00pm, More than Weeds in-person book launch at Morocco Bound, London
21 March 2023, 7:00pm, Corrupted Poetry’s Living with other people anthology launch at Chener Books, 14 Lordship Lane, London SE22 8HN
19 March 2023 from 1:30pm, Poetics Research Centre and Corrupted Poetry poetry reading, Paper Ink Print Festival, Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington
16 March 2023 Nine Arches Press online triple book launch
12 March 2023 11:30am – 12:30pm, Reading: L Kiew and Linda France at StAnza Poetry Festival
11 March 2023 05:00-05:45pm, Writing Elsewhere: Chinese Diasporic Writers, NAWE Conference
8 March 2023, 7:00pm – 9.30pm, Raised Voices 2023 International Women’s Day, online hosted by The Gloucester Poetry Festival
18 February 2023, 2:00pm – 4:00pm, Harana Poetry LIVE at VERVE Poetry Festival
23 November 2022, 7:00pm, The Poetry Showcase: Collectives Special hosted by Poetry Library online
14 October 2022,7:30pm, Written in Blood: Poetry readings and discussion with poets currently writing about the gynecological system at Vagina Museum
02 July 2022, 7:30pm, London Catalan Poetry Celebration at Iklectik Artlab
12 June 2022, Edinburgh ‘GRANS! A Poetry Reading to Celebrate Our Elders’, Hidden Door Festival 2022
17 May 2022, 7pm, Clapham Library, ‘Where We Find Ourselves’ Diaspora Poems and Stories from Arachne Press (Readers and Writers Festival 2022)
09 May 2022, 7pm, Zoom Poetry Wales Spring 2022 Innovative Poetry Launch
04 November 2021, 7pm Where We Find Ourselves Book launch
28 October 2021, 6pm, Our United Voices hosted by Barbican Library
02 October 2021, 11am Poetics of Home Festival – Breaking Down Stereotypes
10 December 2020, 7:30pm, 14 Magazine – Series 2 – Launch
05 December 2020, 7pm, Poets of Christmas Past with Candlestick Press
21 November 2020, 2pm, What We Read Now – In Our Time
14 November 2020, 5pm, Languages and Place talk & reading at Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
11-13 September 2020, Tears in the Fence Festival
24 July 2020, Neptune’s Glitter House for WayWard Poets
10 May 2020, Reading at Poetry Outloud HK ‘Hypenated Identites’ Online event
06 May 2020, Nine Arches Press reading 9pm, Chener Books virtual event