News and Events

Plymouth Laureate of Words: The Class of 2025-2027 at Plymouth Literary Festival, Saturday 14th February, 10.30am - 11.30am, Free

Join me along with my shortlisted cohorts Cate Taylor, Nica Cornell and Samantha Carr for a morning of poetry and fiction. Start your weekend as you mean to go on: invigorated with literary inspiration and creative energy.

Tickets are free and available here.

Stoke Community Poem Launch Event at Stoke Youth & Community Centre, Saturday 21st, 7pm, Free

In collaboration with The Village Hub, we put twenty-five Stoke Village businesses and organisations were put on the spot to create a line of poetry each to make up a community poem. I took each line and laid it up on a 1m x 1m canvas, filling any leftover space with doodles. On Saturday 21st, we will reveal the canvas, which will then begin its tour of Stoke Village, with involved businesses each hosting it in their premises for a week. We will also be displaying blackout poems created by members of the community using news articles dating back to the 1930s. Refreshements provided.

The Secrets of Haiku, Plymouth Central Library, Saturday 28th February 2026, 12.30pm - 3.30pm, Free

Have you ever wondered how haiku really work? Whether there's something beyond those simple three lines that you're missing? In this hands-on workshop, I'll let you in on the secrets to read and write haiku. You'll learn the origins of this ancient Japanese form, before dismantling the 5-7-5 model through accessible writing exercises and examples from classic and contemporary haiku poets, to create your own meditative slices of miniamlism. This workshop will lead to a temporary public 'haiku walk' installation to be launched at Sound: Plymouth Poetry Festival, 10th - 19th April 2026. Your attendance guanrantees a place for your haiku in the installation. 

Find out more and book your free place here.

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