Some details of events, readings, and other poetry-related things I’ve been up to.
- Reading, along with Jake Arthur, Always Becominging, Erik Kennedy and Ashleigh Young, for the closing night celebrations of the exhibition ‘Picking Up the Pieces’ by Todd Atticus. 30 January 2026.
- In October 2025 I spoke with LAMBDA award winning author Katrina Carrasco about her prize-winning novel Rough Trade.
- In September 2025 I spoke with poet Nick Ascroft about his brilliant new collection, It’s What He Would Have Wanted, at Unity Books. You can listen to a recording of the talk here, including some wonderful readings of Nick’s poems.
- Self & Sequence, the Lyric Diary Conference, July 2025. I presented a paper on Maggie Nelson’s Bluets and read from my PhD creative work in progress.
- Reading poems in support of the launch of Harry Rickett’s Bonfires on the Ice, November 2025.
- Reading poems in support of the launch of James Brown’s Slim Volume, July 2024.
- Aotearoa Festival of the Arts, February 2024 – How to Read my Poem, with Tusiata Avia, Arihia Latham, Hannah Mettner and chaired by Chris Tse.
- Aotearoa Festival of the Arts, February 2024 – Stay the Line.
- Verb Festival, November 2023 – Teaching ‘The Poetics of Rage’ Workshop.
- Verb Festival/Litcrawl, November 2023 – 10 Things I Hate About Thee.
- B-Side Stories interview on Wellington Access Radio, talking about Verb and the Poetics of Rage workshop.
- Judge of the (NZ) National Schools Poetry Award 2023. I co-convened a full day poetry workshop for the ten selected finalists, with Leah Dodd. You can read my judge’s report about the amazing young poets’ work.
- What I’m Reading in The Post, August 2023.
- Writer talk at Good Books, with Hannah Mettner and Jane Arthur.
- Writers on Mondays ‘On Second Thoughts’ and ‘Best NZ Poems’ events in 2023.
- At The Poetry Cafe in London in 2018.
- Interview for The Poetry Shelf on the launch of Some of us eat the seeds.
- Launch notes for Some of us eat the seeds by Unity Books.
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