Events
Upcoming
Please contact me if your group, bookshop or organisation would like to arrange a reading or a workshop.
- 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
- 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, and Jenny Knight (online), more details to come!
Previous months
- 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 9BX25 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 door6 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