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Forthcoming events
Saturday 11th May, 4pm
The Autistic Shuffle
Jill Abram and Gale Burns present: The Autistic Shuffle
Join us for an afternoon of innovation and ingenuity in poetry and words upstairs at The Devereux, 20 Devereux Court, London, WC2R 3JJ. Entry £8/5 low income. Pay on the door.
In this special edition of The Shuffle, autistic writers and performers Kate Fox, Hannah Silva, Kandace Siobhan Walker, Gareth Farmer, Jill Abram and *AMPLE Collective will demonstrate that autistic people can be creative, empathetic, communicative, emotional and imaginative artists. The variety of work will also show that not all autistic people are the same – as we say, when you’ve met one autistic person, you’ve met one autistic person!
Kate Fox is a Stand-up poet, Broadcaster and Neurodiversity advocate based in Newcastle. She’s a regular contributor to BBC Radio’s The Verb. Her most recent books are Where There’s Muck There’s Bras: True Stories of the North of England’s Women (Harper North) and The Oscillations (Nine Arches). Her next will be Bigger on the Inside (Smokestack).
https://katefoxwriter.wordpress.com/
Hannah Silva’s audio drama An Artificially Intelligent Guide to Love for BBC Radio 4 starred Fiona Shaw and was the starting point for My Child, the Algorithm (Footnote), a memoir on queer parenting and love written in conversation with a GPT algorithm and a toddler, which was a Granta Book of the Year.
https://www.hannahsilva.co.uk/
Kandace Siobhan Walker is a writer and artist of Jamaican, Canadian, Saltwater Geechee and Welsh heritage. She won an Eric Gregory Award and the White Review Poet’s Prize. Her pamphlet, Kaleido, was published by Bad Betty Press, and her debut collection, Cowboy (Cheerio Publishing) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize Best First Collection 2023.
https://kandace.co.uk/
Poet, producer and presenter Jill Abram grew up in Manchester, travelled the world and now lives in Brixton. She is autistic, has Jewish heritage and lives with fibromyalgia. She was Director of the influential collective, Malika’s Poetry Kitchen for 12 years. Her debut pamphlet, Forgetting My Father, is published by Broken Sleep Books.
http://jillabram.co.uk/
Gareth Farmer is a writer, lecturer, budding podcaster and woodworker (in no particular order). He is also an inveterate collector of books, cuddly toys, wood, stationary and radio-associated sundries. Gareth’s pamphlet, Kerf, is published by the87press
https://www.garethstuartfarmer.com/
*AMPLE Collective are Sofia Lyall and Jacqueline Ennis Cole. They are an intergenerational autistic collective centred around radical ecological care, open dialogue, and collective wellbeing. They will present Mutterings, which was commissioned by Spread the Word and first performed at the 2024 Deptford Literature Festival.
https://www.spreadtheword.org.uk/mutterings-by-ample-collective/
https://twitter.com/xamplcollective
Sunday 26th May, 7pm
Jill Abram presents The Manchester Minyanaires at the Manchester Jewish Museum.
According to orthodox Jewish law, a Minyan (quorum) of ten men is required to speak prayers in public. There are no rules for women speaking poems, so meet the Manchester Minyanaires!
Join Aviva Dautch, Jill Abram and Kitty Martin for an intimate evening of poetry and conversation about their Manchester Jewish roots.
During this performance you will find out why you can take a poet out of Jewish Manchester, but you can’t take Jewish Manchester out of a poet!
Entry: £10, Under 30s and MJM Members £9 (Personal Assistant free) Book Here
Manchester Jewish Museum, 190 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester, M8 8LW
Past Events
Sunday 21st April
Venn Diagrams at the Torriano Meeting House
I was delighted to read with Fiona Larkin at the invitation of Patrizia Longhitano
Sunday 26th November
Fashion City: Poetry and Music at the Museum
Jewish Renaissance presented an afternoon of words and music to celebrate the new Fashion City exhibition at Museum of London Docklands. There were readings by prize-winning poets Jacqueline Saphra, Rachael Clyne and me, and live music from internationally renowned singer Sarit Aloni.
13th November 2023, Online
Cafe Writers
I featured along with Paul Stephenson – there was an open mic too.
Sunday 22nd October
I was selected for the open mic section of the London Literature Festival Poetry and Paint event in the Clore Ballroom at the Southbank Centre.
Saturday 24th June
The Daily Feminist panel at Bradford Literature Festival
What’s it like to live as a modern day feminist? How do the guiding principles of equality, equity, and freedom from oppression manifest in daily life? I was on a panel of writers, fashionistas, and academics to explore what feminism means in our professional, personal, and spiritual lives. With Sofia Rehman, an author and academic specialising in Islam and gender, Rosie Jackson, whose latest poetry collection Love Leans Over the Table explores her spiritual autobiography, traversing faith between Christian and Sufi mysticism and Hafsa Lodi, author of Modesty: A Fashion Paradox and journalist, chaired by journalist and broadcaster Remona Aly.
Wednesday 14th June
You Can’t Be Autistic, You’re a Poet
Part of the Special Edition series at the National Poetry Library.
Kate Fox and Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa joined me for poetry and conversation to challenge preconceptions around women, poetry and autism.
Sunday 11th June
Torriano Poetry reading
I read with Rachael Clyne, whose collection You’ll Never Be Anyone Else is published by Seren, Pauline Sewards hosted us and the open mic.
Sunday 28th May
Broken Sleep Books May 2023 online Launch
An online reading celebrated the books published in May by my publisher, with Taylor Strickland, Cathleen Allyn Conway, Patrick Davidson Roberts, Wendy Allen, Oliver Fox, Charley Barnes and me.
Monday 22nd May
WordPlay Poetry Night
I was delighted to feature alongside Yomi Ṣode at WordPlay, hosted by Nine Arches Press at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry.
Tuesday 16th May
The Launch Party for my pamphlet Forgetting My Father was held upstairs at The Devereux pub near Temple. There were two “sittings” – some came early, others late and some stayed for both! I invited everyone to bring a poem to read and I read a set in each session. Jo Bell introduced me in the first half, having collected lovely comments about me from all present, but I wouldn’t let her do it again because my mascara only just survived the first time! Thanks to Mary Mulholland for the photo of me and Melanie Seto for the ones of the audience.
Wednesday 10th May
Lucky Lambeth’s Brilliant Bards
I presented an evening of poetry at Streatham Library for the Readers and Writers Festival with Claire Collison, Shazea Quraishi and Sophie Herxheimer.
Thursday 23rd March
Launch of More Than Weeds by L. Kiew and After All We Have Travelled by Sarala Estruch
I presented this event at Morocco Bound bookshop in Bermondsey with readings from special guests Rishi Dastidar and Jennifer Wong as well as Lisa and Sarala.
Sunday 5th March 2023
Tsitsit Fringe at Jewish Book Week
Sophie Herxheimer, Adam Kammerling and I read poems and conversed with Alastair Falk, founder of Tsitsit Fringe Festival, at King’s Place as part of Jewish Book Week.
The event was to launch The Poetry Haggadah: setting History free – a new project involving contemporary poets and the traditional seder night text. (Seder is the first night of Passover, which commemorates the Exodus from slavery in Egypt.)
Wed 12th October
Launch for Peter Raynard and Jess Mookherjee
I hosted a launch for two new books from Nine Arches Press at The Wheatsheaf in London
Thursday 28 July, 18:45
A Pocketful of Chalk by Claire Booker – launch
I was invited to read at the launch of this new book from Arachne Press, alongside Lisa Kelly, Alan Price, Louise Warren and, of course, Claire Booker in the Library at Keats House
Saturday 16th July, 8pm
Perspectives on the Collective at Skylines Poetry Festival
I presented Poetry and Conversation with Jacob Sam-La Rose and introduced short sets from some talented up and coming poets from a new Coventry poetry collective – Lewis Driver, Meg Waters and Alice Richmond.
Friday 15th July, 7:30pm
Malika’s Poetry Kitchen at Woolwich Words and Sounds 
with Charlotte Ansell, Arji Manuelpillai, Michelle Penn, Desree and me.
I was delighted to return to Ledbury Poetry Festival to present three events:
Monday 4th July, 6pm – Online
Poetry and Conversation on Illness, Health and Death with Polly Atkin and Hannah Hodgson
Friday 8th July, 8pm
Caleb Femi: Poor – reading and conversation
Caleb’s debut, Poor, combines poetry and original photography to explore the trials, tribulations, dreams and joys of young Black boys in twenty-first century Peckham and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2021.
Saturday 9th July, 3pm
Desert Island Poems with Alistair McGowan
Impressionist, actor, writer of jokes, plays and sketches, stand-up comedian and, latterly, pianist, Alistair McGowan shared stories of his life and his favourite poems – with special guests.
Wed, 11 May – online
NeurodiVERSE anthology reading
I was one of several neurodivergent writers reading our poems about the experience of neurodivergence in this anthology from Flapjack Press, hosted by three of the editors, Rob Steventon, Janine Booth and Kate Fox. Buy the book here
Tuesday 5th April – online
Jill Abram Presents… 8 Shoestring Poets
I was invited to host an online reading to celebrate eight poets whose books from the Nottingham based publisher, Shoestring Press, came out in the last two years: Chris Hardy, Judith Wilkinson, John Mole, Kathleen Bell, Neil Fulwood, Janet Montefiore, Hubert Moore and Merryn Williams
27th March – hybrid
Poets for Ukraine Poemathon and Gala
I was one of over 50 poets reading in the all-day poemathon at JW3 raising money for the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal by Goods for Good and Hope and Aid Direct
By the end of the event, we had raised over £25,000 but every little helps (as they say) and the donation links are still open. Please sponsor me by clicking this GoFundMe link (check my name is selected in the ‘referred by’ dropdown menu in the donation details, just below payment method).
In the evening there was a star studded gala, which can be viewed here, with special guests including Juliet Stevenson, Jessie Ware, Meera Syal, Sophie Ward, Nick Hytner, Harriet Walter and Bill Paterson and poets Naomi Shihab Nye from the USA, former Scottish Makar Jackie Kay, Former National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke, Imtiaz Dharker who holds the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, Costa Book Prize winner Hannah Lowe, Forward Prize winner Fiona Benson, Former Poet Laureates Carol Ann Duffy and Andrew Motion and Poet in Residence for Radio 4 & 4 Extra Daljit Nagra. They shared the spotlight with Ukrainian poets appearing on video both from the frontline and the diaspora.
Saturday 26th March
I was delighted to be published in the latest 14 magazine and even more thrilled to have been invited, along with Kathy Pimlott, to a launch with Sutton Women’s Network at the Honeywood Museum in Carshalton.
22nd March – online
I presented Late to the Table, an edition of Jennifer Wong’s series What We Read Now, with Kate Fox, Joanne Limburg and Vicky Morris, three late-diagnosed autistic poets who read from their work & discussed the intersections between neurodiversity, writing, gender and creativity.
You can watch the event back on the WWRN YouTube channel
20th March – online
Red Door Poets have an excellent online reading series. At each one, three of them read and invite a special guest – Chris Hardy asked me, the others were Elizabeth Horsley and her guest Richie McCaffery, Lesley Sharpe and her guest Michelle Penn
8th March 2022
Live Canon held an event for International Women’s Day. Helen Eastman introduced Hilaire, Gillie Robic, Susannah Hart and me. We each read a poem by another inspiring woman and some of our own work.
20th February
Verve Poetry Festival was back at the Birmingham Hippodrome! On the Sunday afternoon, Bohdan Piasecki hosted a Party for the Malika’s Poetry Kitchen Anthology with Kostya Tsolakis, Fahad Al-Amoudi, Khairani Barokka and me.
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20th January 2021
Live Canon‘s first in-person event of the year was at the Concert Artistes Association in Covent Garden, where I read with NJ Hynes, Sana Rao and Michelle Penn, introduced by Helen Eastman
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21st December – online
Poetry Wales Party 2021
“The Poetry Wales holiday gatherings/parties are happening in the darkest Samhain and Yule cycles of the year, and we welcome those who wish to partake to join us virtually for a wonderful feast of poetry – to bring forth the light of connection and togetherness.”
I was one of the many contributors invited to read by Editor Zoe Brigley.
Monday 22nd November – online
Desert Island Poets with Sue Burge
I was in the raft of castaways invited to read a favourite poem by a contemporary poet, followed by one of our own which is thematically/inspirationally linked.
For more details on the poets who participated, click here
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Sunday, 21 November, 5pm
Breaking Ground: Poets Reflect
I was delighted to be part of the closing event of Richmond Literature Festival alongside six other poets, including Roger McGough.
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Saturday 30th October
Malika
‘s Poetry Kitchen was invited by the Southbank Centre to take part in the London Literature Festival. The theme of the festival this year was friendship, so I had conversations with three pairs of friends from the MPK family and they read some of their poems.
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Sunday 17th October
Jill Abram presents: The Minyanaires at TAM
According to orthodox Jewish law, a Minyan of ten men is required to speak prayers in public. There are no rules for women speaking poems, so meet the Minyanaires! I presented some fabulous female Jewish poets as part of Tsitsit Fringe Festival (“If it’s Jewish enough for you, it’s Jewish enough for us.”) With Jacqueline Saphra, Sophie Herxheimer, Aviva Dautch, Amy Acre, and Rachel Clyne.
with thanks to Laura Godfrey-Isaacs for these photos
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Thursday 7th October, online
National Poetry Day reading with Malika’s Poetry Kitchen and The Portobello Bookshop
I introduced fellow MPK poets Dean Atta, Joolz Sparkes, Be Manzini and Soul Patel.
You can watch it back here:
Thursday 2nd September, online
I was on the line up for an edition of Jennifer Wong’s What We Read Now series with Katie Griffiths, Patrick Errington and Samatar Elmi on the theme of “Between Places”. Watch it back below:
Monday 16th August
I was in conversation with Joanne Limburg about her book, Letters to my Weird Sisters. Joanne is a multi-genre author who was diagnosed as autistic in her forties, which helped her realise why she had always been misunderstood. In this book she writes a series of wide-ranging letters to four women from history who were also often dismissed for their differences.
You can watch the event below:
from Thursday 12th August
I had a slot in the open mic of Write Out Loud‘s fourth Spoken Session. It was recorded a couple of weeks beforehand and is now live.
WOL is a hub for participation in poetry, encouraging everyone who writes poetry to share their words with others. They have set up a patreon page to raise funds, which has three levels of support at £3/£5/£7 a month. For more information and to sign up – which will allow you to view all the Spoken Sessions – click here
Monday 14th June
Cafe Writers online
My MPK brother Rishi Dastidar and I were feature poets.
Wednesday 5th May
#MeToo / #UsTogether
Three years on from the global #MeToo movement, we revisited the poems and poets behind the #MeToo Women’s Poetry Anthology, to talk about breaking the silence, and whether there is still hope for change (and what needs to happen to be heard).
I chaired readings and discussions with Deborah Alma, editor of the anthology, Kim Moore, Victoria Bennett and Wendy Pratt, which you can watch back below
Monday 3rd May
Malika’s Poetry Kitchen at the London Library Lit Fest
We had a poetry birthday party – Kitchen’s 20th and the Library’s 180th! I presented Inua Ellams, Arji Manuelpillai, Charlotte Ansell and Zakia Carpenter-Hall, who were actually in the library with me and Malika Booker and Kayo Chingonyi who beamed in from Leeds.
You can still book a ticket to watch the event here
Saturday 1st May
I introduced MPK poets Arji Manuelpillai, Courtney Conrad, Katie Griffiths and Janett Plummer reading at the Stay at Home! International Literature Festival. You can watch it below.
Thursday 22nd April
I hosted the launch of The Attitudes by Katie Griffiths
with special guests from Malika’s Poetry Kitchen (Arji Manuelpillai and Michelle Penn)
and Red Door Poets (Mary Mulholland and Matthew Paul).
This event was streamed live on the Nine Arches Press YouTube channel with live captions and can be viewed again here.
Friday 19th March 2021
Live Canon have started a new free lunchtime reading series on Zoom, introduced by their Director, Helen Eastman. I featured with Andrea Holland, Marcus Smith and Chérie Taylor Battiste.
Sunday 7th March 2021
Live from the Butchery was a Malika’s Poetry Kitchen special, featuring our co-founder, Malika Booker, one of our newest members, Fahad Al-Amoudi, and me. Helen Ivory, Martin Figura and Kate Birch have been presenting these readings on Zoom for the last few months and they’ve been great! More info on their Facebook page
Thursday 10th Dec 2020
I was delighted to have a poem in the rejuvenated 14 Magazine and to read at the launch.
Friday 27th November 2020
Serge ♆ Neptune invited me to guest at Neptune’s Glitter House for WayWard Poets – “The most over the top poetry broadcast” – with Rick Dove and Kym Deyn.
Saturday 14th November 2020
The fabulous Poetry in Aldeburgh moved online this year and asked me to host Performance in the Pub at the virtual ‘Cross Keys’ on the Saturday night. I presented three pamphleteers – Ali Lewis, Arji Manuelpillai and Serge ♆ Neptune – and the open mic. My background in the picture is the actual Cross Keys!
Saturday 25th July 2020
Malika’s Poetry Kitchen did its first ever online reading, courtesy of WinchesterFest and Whisky & Beards Publishing. You can watch it back below. It was free but we welcome donations to the Kitchen coffers – please click paypal.me/MalikasPoetryKitchen
Thursday 12th March 2020
I performed two sets at Talking Rhythm in Greenwich, hosted by Bernadette Reed, one with music by Bex Marshall
Sunday 8th March 2020
I presented Desert Island Poems with crime writer Val McDermid at StAnza Poetry Festival.
Photos by David Vallis
18 Nov 2019
I presented the launch of Mimi Khalvati‘s book of Petrarchan sonnets, Afterwardness, with special guest Kei Miller. I forgot to take any pictures until after we’d left the building!
2 Oct 2019
I was one of 8 Extraordinary Poets on-board The Golden Hinde hosted by Sophia Blackwell
11 Sep 2019
I was invited to read a couple of poems by Corrupted Poetry (Nic Stringer, Fiona Larkin and Michelle Penn) as part of their Behind the Mask event
Tuesday, 18 June 2019
To celebrate publication of her new collection, The Filthy Quiet, Kate Noakes invited Michelle Penn, Gale Burns, Cath Drake, Kate Potts, Peter Daniels, Margo Berdeshevsky and me to read with her at the Torriano Meeting House.
Friday 24th June 2019
A few of us who are published in the first edition of Finished Creatures magazine were invited to read those poems as part of Lodestone Poets #5 at Waterstones Tottenham Court Road with Jane Yeh, Rebecca Goss, Richard Scott and Lesley Sharpe.
Friday 2nd May 2019
I was guest co-host of She Grrrowls, a feminist arts night at the Poetry Cafe, curated by Carmina Masoliver.
Wed 13th March 2019
I was one of the feature poets, along with Sophie Herxheimer at Loose Muse, London’s Premiere Women Writers’ Night, run by Agnes Meadows.
8th – 10th March 2019
I was invited by Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, StAnza, in St Andrews to present Stablemates with Helena Nelson, Peter Daniels and Ramona Herdman of HappenStance Press and a Breakfast Panel entitled “Off The Page” with Julia Bird, Will Harris, Sara Lodge and Ben Norris.
Saturday 16th Feb 2019
I was honoured to be invited by the fabulous Verve Poetry Festival in Birmingham to present their Saturday evening headline reading with Sumita Chakraborty, Vahni Capildeo & Sophie Collins
Sun 27th January 2019
WeCaN: Women’s Events Collaboration and Networking
I featured at an event in Brixton to promote women in music and the arts, in a safe and nurturing environment; to foster and strengthen connections. There were also DJs, gypsy fusion music and dance from Shkembe Soup, flamenco dance and guitar, and experimental groove from Eke Homo.
Tuesday 11th December 2018
Cora Greenhill invited me to feature with Harriet Tarlo at Poets in the Bath in Sheffield
Wed 14th November 2018
Jill Abram presents Stablemates
Conversation and poetry with Mark Doty, Andrew McMillan and Fiona Benson from Jonathan Cape
Wed 15th August 2018
I featured at Word Search Live in Sutton with Aislinn Evans, Poetry World Cup finalist, and youngest ever UK Slam Champion, hosted by Sara Hobbs
Sun 15th July 2018
Pauline Sewards invited me to feature alongside Elizabeth Parker at Torriano Meeting House
Ledbury Poetry Festival 2018
2nd July – I presented Desert Island Poems with Miles Jupp.
4th July – I interviewed Chris Difford about his life in and out of Squeeze and he played a couple of the band’s songs. (link to Podcast)
6th July – Stablemates with Kim Moore, Jonathan Edwards and Paul Henry from Seren. (link to Podcast)
Thur 28th June 2018
Jill Abram presents Stablemates
Conversation and poetry with Richard Scott, Jack Underwood and Jo Shapcott from Faber & Faber
Thur 24th May 2018
Jill Abram presents Stablemates
Conversation and poetry with Richard Georges, SJ Fowler and Geraldine Clarkson from Shearsman Books
Thur 26th April 2018
Jill Abram presents Stablemates
Conversation and poetry with Stephen Daniels, David Clarke & Sarah James of V.Press
19th April 2018
Vanguard Readings at Peckham Pelican “One of our legendary poetry-only evenings!”
I was invited to join Peter Raynard & Richard Skinner as they tour the UK to read from their new books Precarious & The Malvern Aviator, both published by Smokestack Books, as were Soul Patel, Roy Marshall, & Pnina Shinebourne.
11th April 2018
I chaired a panel/reading at the London Book Fair about the #MeToo poetry anthology with the editor, Deborah Alma, the publisher Nadia Kingsley of Fair Acre Press and poet Jacqueline Saphra.
March 22nd 2018
Jill Abram presents Stablemates
Conversation and poetry with Emma Simon, Julia Bird and John Clegg from Emma Press
March 15th 2018 at Waterstones Tottenham Court Road
I presented the launch of Assembly Lines by Jane Commane, also reading were Raymond Antrobus, Peter Raynard and Seraphima Kennedy.
March 8th 2018 at Waterstones Tottenham Court Road
I read from the #MeToo anthology for International Women’s Day with Jacqueline Saphra, Michelle Penn and editor of the anthology, Deborah Alma.
Thursday 22nd February 2018
Jill Abram presents Stablemates
Conversation and poetry with Elisabeth Sennitt Clough, Paul Stephenson and Karen Jane Cannon of Paper Swans Press
Saturday 17th Feb 2018
As part of Verve Poetry Festival at Waterstones Birmingham I presented a Stablemates with the editor and writers of the first two full collections from new press Offord Road Books – Martha Sprackland, James Brooks and Bobby Parker.
Thursday 25th January 2018
Jill Abram presents a Stablemates special
Conversation and poetry with The Very Selected Mimi Khalvati and Michael Schmidt, and New Poet Phoebe Stuckes from The Poetry Business at Waterstones Trafalgar Square
Thursday 14th December 2017
The One I Love — Closing Event
I was invited by Naomi Woddis to read at an event celebrating her photographic exhibition exploring the relationship people with chronic invisible conditions have with their pets.
At the Free Space Project, Kentish Town Health Centre with Leila Segal, Rishi Dastidar, Jasmine Cooray and Miriam Nash.
Sunday 3rd December 2017
The Torriano Meeting House has poetry readings every Sunday night. This one was curated by Lisa Kelly and featured four poets who had been included in Magma 69: The Deaf Issue which she co-edited.
Thursday 30th November 2017
Jill Abram presents Stablemates
Conversation and poetry with Sean O’Brien, Hannah Lowe and Jacqueline Saphra of Hercules Editions
Thurs 26th October 2017
Jill Abram presents Stablemates
Poetry and conversation with Hollie McNish, Kate Fox and Keith Jarrett of Burning Eye Books
Wed 18th October 2017
Jill Abram presents Stablemates in Birmingham!
Poetry and Conversation with Henry Normal, Rosie Garland and Jackie Hagan of Flapjack Press
Thursday 28th September 2017
Jill Abram presents Stablemates
Poetry and Conversation for National Poetry Day with Roger McGough, Hugo Williams and Malika Booker of Penguin Modern Poets.
Ledbury Poetry Festival 2017
5th July – I presented Desert Island Poems with Hugh Dennis (Podcast here)
8th July – Malika’s Poetry Kitchen with Malika Booker, Rishi Dastidar, Seraphima Kennedy, Peter Raynard and Jacob Sam La Rose (Podcast here)
9th July – Fantastic Beasts coffee morning with Malika’s Poetry Kitchen
9th July – Stablemates with Roger Robinson, Nick Makoha and Seni Seneviratne of Peepal Tree Press (Podcast here)
Wednesday 28th June 2017
Jill Abram presents Stablemates
Poetry and Conversation with Grace Nichols, Miriam Nash and Chrissy Williams of Bloodaxe Books.
Thursday 25th May 2017
Jill Abram presents Stablemates
Poetry and Conversation with Ruth Padel, Liz Berry and Kayo Chingonyi of Chatto & Windus.
Thursday 27th April 2017
Jill Abram presents Stablemates
Poetry and Conversation with Steve Ely, Nancy Charley and Richard Skinner of Smokestack Books
Thursday 20th April 2017
Feature poet at Black Cat Poets, Denton, Manchester.
Thursday 30th March 2017
Jill Abram presents Stablemates
Poetry and Conversation with Mona Arshi, Ruby Robinson and Deryn Rees-Jones of Pavilion Poetry
Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Launch of Ticker-tape by Rishi Dastidar
I was delighted to present the launch of Rishi’s debut poetry collection. There were also readings from Katie Griffiths and Alex MacDonald.
Wednesday 1st March 2017
Masterclass with Sean O’Brien
I co-hosted this event with Tamar Yoseloff, editor of Hercules Editions which published Sean O’Brien’s chapbook Hammersmith.
Some of the audience questions and Sean’s answers are transcribed on the Hercules Editions website
Thursday 23rd February 2017
Jill Abram presents Stablemates
Poetry and Conversation with Martin Figura, Kathleen M Quinlan and Lesley Ingram of Cinnamon Press
Monday 13th February 2017
I was one of the features at Loose Muse Winchester – a spin off from the London series for women writers – alongside award winning novelist Claire Fuller.
at Discovery Centre, Jewry Street, Winchester, SO23 8SB
Thursday 26th January 2017
Jill Abram presents Stablemates
Poetry and Conversation with Kei Miller, William Letford and Kate Miller of Carcanet.
Tuesday 6th December 2016
I was the showcase poet at a special edition of Beyond Words. The main feature was the premier of SALT MUSIC – the story of Hessle Road and the fishing folk of Hull with words by Angela Brodie and music by Steve Halliwell.
7.30pm at The Gipsy Hill Tavern, 79 Gipsy Hill, SE19 1QY
Thursday 24th November 2016
Jill Abram presents Stablemates
Poetry and Conversation with Tamar Yoseloff, Caroline Smith and Rosie Shepperd of Seren Books.
Thursday 27th October 2016
Jill Abram presents Stablemates
Poetry and Conversation with Jo Bell, Isobel Dixon and Rishi Dastidar from Nine Arches Press
Thursday 29th September 2016
Jill Abram presents Stablemates
Poetry and Conversation with Ross Sutherland, Claire Trévien and Charlotte Newman from publisher Penned in the Margins.
Mon 27th June 2016
Jill Abram presents Look Who’s In Town!
Matthew Siegel, Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf were nominated for the Forward Best First Collection Prize in 2015, which Mona won with Small Hands. While Matthew was on this side of the Atlantic, I got them together again plus special guest Yomi Sode for a unique reading.
Upstairs at the Wheatsheaf pub, 25 Rathbone Place, London, W1T 1JB.