Rogue Strands

Right, so I’ve got three in-person readings coming up. The details are as follows: Saturday 28 th Feb. Guest Poet at Ver Poets in St Albans...

Mat and I had a great audience of 35-40 for our Rogue Strands event in London last week. Poets met readers, readers met poets, pints were dr...

Back in the day, we used to create mix tapes for our mates. Of course, they were really made up of the music we enjoyed listening to ourselv...

With a  stellar line-up that would grace any of the top poetry festivals in the country, our  next Rogue Strands Poetry Reading is in London...

Thanks to Mat Riches' dexterity with his flash phone, here's a video of me reading a poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't at th...

We'll be hosting thoroughbreds from several top-notch stables at Rogue Strands in London on 23rd April (at The Devereux, which is an ace...

Last week was a whirlwind, albeit a brilliant one, and I'm only just starting to recover! The readings in Birmingham and Oxford went v...

This coming week promises to be pretty busy: I'll be reading at Poetry Bites in Birmingham on Tuesday 26th November, where I'm the f...

Over the past three weeks, I've been posting a poem by each of the poets who'll be reading at the Rogue Strands event on 28th Novemb...

The poets I most admire tend to be the ones that don't follow trends, that are in this for the long haul, that don't have any choice...

I've long been a fan of Robin Houghton's poetry, which is why I'm very pleased she'll be reading with us at Rogue Strands on...

When we read any poem, it's informed by the poet's job (even if that job involves teaching poetry!), but sometimes their working env...

Apart from being the co-organiser of our upcoming Rogue Strands poetry reading on 28th November ( see Facebook page, etc ), Mat Riches is al...

We tried to get Katy Evans-Bush on board for the inaugural Rogue Strands poetry reading, but a clash of dates meant that she was unable to m...

I first met Rory Waterman in 2011 when we both read at a Days of Roses event in London (organised by Declan Ryan). If his reading that eveni...

I've been a fan of Ramona Herdman's excellent poetry for several years, but I wasn't aware of just how good she is at reading it...

If social and traditional media promise to bombard and eventually dull your senses over the next few tumultuous weeks, Rogue Strands can off...

With featured readings from Rory Waterman, Katy Evans-Bush, Ramona Herdman, Rishi Dastidar, Mat Riches and myself, plus support from Robin H...

If last week saw me doing a whistle-stop tour of Chichester, London and Aldeburgh, this week has seen me back in Extremadura, racing to keep...

Just a quick post as I gather my stuff together in readiness for the drive up to Aldeburgh following yesterday's terrific evening at The...