Events

I am available for poetry performances pretty much anywhere at any time in return for travel costs. Send me an email to eightcutsgallery@gmail.com
I am especially looking for bookings for my show Some of These Things are Beautiful, which premiered at Cheltenham Poetry Festival in 2013. See the show’s page for more details about it.

2013
21 February, Penning Perfumes at the Albion Beatnik
20 April, The New Libertines at Chipping Norton Literary Festival
24 April, Some of These Things are Beautiful (Solo Show) at Cheltenham Poetry Festival
May 14, Hammer and Tongue Oxford Slam Final
June 8, NOTHNIG TO SAY, Stoke Newington Literary Festival
November 16, The New Libertines at Woodstock Poetry Festival

2012
9 January – FULLFAT, 93 Feet East, Brick Lane
23 January – New Libertines at Afflecks, Manchester
13 February – Allographic, The Emperor, Cambridge
4 March – ARTournament, New Inn, Gloucester 3-9pm (my slot at 7)

7 March Poetry in the Parlour for Oxford International Women’d Festival, Blackwell’s, 7pm
20 March – panelist on ebooks and independent bookstores/libraries for Society of Young Publishers in Oxford, 7pm (venue tbc)
28 March – Poets and Proseurs at Not the Oxford Literary Festival
18 April – Alliance of Independent Authors panel at London Book Fair
21 April – The New Libertines fringing Chipping Norton Literary Festival, 8.30pm, The Chequers, Chipping Norton, FREE
26 April – launch of Ash Magazine
27 April – 6.15 A Good Old Yarn at Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham (FREE) – 10 minute set
6 May – hosting the spoken word stage at ARTournament, New Inn, Gloucester, 3-7pm
12 May – Swindon Slam
16 May – Flash Slam! for National Flash Fiction Day
17 May – London Literature Lounge
3 June- The New Libertines at Stoke Newington Literary Festival
12 June – Hammer and Tongue Oxford Final
17 June – Performance Poetry in Oxford (puttogether by Oxford Brookes), Old Fire Station
26 June – Full Fat, The Book Club, Shoreditch
7 July – Faringdon Festival – 6.30-7pm in the performance tent
7 July – Alice Day – 2.15, Blackwell’s
14 July – Onform Sculpture poetry installation, Asthall Manor
18 July – Sage & Time open mic
19 July – Templar Poetry, The Chequers, Chipping Norton (featured local poet with 2 x 15 minute sets)
19 September – MC at Flash Slam, Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden
4 October – MC at Flash Slam, Warwick Words festival
12 October, MC for Poetry Jam at The Tea Box, Richmond
17 October, talking about self-publishing for the Writers 2012 group, Oxford
28 October, Wantage Poetry Slam
10 November, The New Libertines at Woodstock Poetry Festival
13 November, Sadcore Dadwave in Manchester
16 November, performing with Michael Horovitz and Paul Askew at the Albion Beatnik, Oxford
23 November, The New Libertines at the Albion Beatnik, Oxford

PAST SHOWS

2009

“Gush” at Book Club Boutique (invited)

29 October – Songs from the Other Side of the Wall launch

1 December – Free-e-day Live at Café Tarifa, Oxford

 

2010

4 February – Year Zero Live at Rough Trade

23 February – Year Zero unplugged at To Hell With Books

24 March – Year Zero beyond the fringe at The Albion Beatnik

14 April Open-armed & Outcast at Ovada Gallery, Oxford

19 May – Lilith Burning, Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford

20 May – Year Zero & Knickerbocker Circus at the Literature Lounge, Covent Garden Poetry Cafe

31 July – Beautiful Things that Happen at the Albion Beatnik

7 August – Beautiful Things that Happen to Ugly People at The Good Ship, Kilburn

26 August – Failed Flights of Transcendence at Art Jericho

9 September – Beat Night, Camden

13 October – Literary Death Match, London

29 October – Schnellkritik Modern Art Oxford

17 November – Oxford International Women’s Festival poetry competition

18 November – Into the Desert Live at the O3 Gallery

2 December – Text in the City at the O3 Gallery

9 December - Hipstocratic Beat Night, Toynbee Studios, Commercial Street

2011

14 January - No Reading Alone at the Isis Tsavern, Oxford

20 January - Lime and Grime at The Literature Lounge, Covent Garden Poetry Café

27 January - Once Upon a Time in a Gallery, O3 Gallery, Oxford

4 April – Not the Oxford Literary Festival, Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford

12 May -  Grit Lit at Brighton Fringe, Red Roaster, Brighton

3 June – Structo Magazine Issue 6 Launch, Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford

4 June – The New Libertines at Stoke Newington Literary Festival, Baby Bath Hiouse, Stoke Newington

13 June The New Libertines at Oxfringe

22 June – Dissocia Zine Issue 2 Launch, Albion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford

Thursday 28 July, 7pm - Rising Literary Stars panel at Blackwell’s Bookstore, Oxford alongside Lee Rourke, Naomi Wood and Rachel Genn

10 August, 8pm – Nightmaring Spires at the Albion Beatnik

15 September – New Libertines at the Literature Lounge, Covent Garden Poetry Cafe

17 September – PoW-WoW Festival publishing panel, New Libertines and Literary slam - Birmingham

18 October – This is Oxford at Blackwell’s Bookstore

20 October – We Love Murakami at Blackwell’s

21 October – Oxford International Women’s Festival Poetry Night

26 October – Crossing the Line at the Albion Beatnik

12 November Lyrical Badlads

18 November – Ash launch (the magazine of Oxford University Poetry Society) at The Albion Beatnik, 8pm

23 November - The Royal Standard of England, Beaconsfield

13 December – slamming at Hammer & Tongue