Events

Readings, lectures, workshops, performances, radio, TV and online interviews. 

2026

  • 'We Made It' project to create the lyrics for a song to celebrate Pembrokeshire's Welsh heritage, with 700 schoolchildren in St David's Cathedral. 
  • Six performances of Gresffordd - I'r Goleuni Nawr! / Gresford - Up from Underground! in Rhosllannerchrugog, Blackwood, Caernarfon and Ystradgynlais.

2025

  • Poetry reading and panel discussion on Welsh religious poetry with Rowan Williams and Paul Mealor at the Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts.
  • Lecture on Bryan Martin Davies, Radio Cymru Tocyn Wythnos studio interview and Cerddi'r Ffin poetry reading at National Eisteddfod of Wales.
  • Deus vs Machina: reading with Peter Finch at the Brecon Choir Festival.
  • Reading at Maesyronnen Chapel for the Brecon Choir Festival.
  • Lecture on R.S.Thomas at the R.S.Thomas and M.E.Eldridge Festival at Aberdaron.
  • Poetry reading, Wrexham Carnival of Words
  • Visit to Rome to teach dream interpretation to postgraduate study group from Goodenough College.
  • Poetry reading and panel discussion on Welsh religious poetry with Rowan Williams and Paul Mealor at the Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts.
  • Lecture on Bryan Martin Davies, Radio Cymru Tocyn Wythnos studio interview and Cerddi'r Ffin poetry reading at National Eisteddfod of Wales.
  • Deus vs Machina: reading with Peter Finch at the Brecon Choir Festival.
  • Reading at Maesyronnen Chapel for the Brecon Choir Festival.
  • Lecture on R.S.Thomas at the R.S.Thomas and M.E.Eldridge Festival at Aberdaron.
  • Poetry reading, Wrexham Carnival of Words
  • Visit to Rome to teach dream interpretation to postgraduate study group from Goodenough College.

2024

  • Reading at the Knighton Festival, Powys.
  • Reading at The North Wales International Music Festival, St Asaph.
  • A Scottish Prayer, composed by Paul Mealor, performed at Crathie Kirk in the presence of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla, on the second anniversary of the Accession.
  • Reading and lecture at the North American Festival of Wales, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
  • Series of readings and lectures in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
  • BBC Radio Cymru, Rhaglen Ffion Dafis.
  • BBC Radio Wales, Roy Noble Programme.
  • Guardian Poem of the Week, 'The Journalist'.
  • Writing With Light festival with Sarah Class, Hay Castle.
  • Reading at The Three Streams Festival, Llantwit Major.
  • Reading at The Athenaeum Club, London.
  • Reading at The Royal Overseas League, London.
  • Reading at The Chapel Royal, London.
  • Lecture at Jesus College, Oxford.

2023

  • Reading at The Three Streams Festival, Llantwit Major.
  • Reading at St Davids Festival of Ideas.
  • Reading at Ancient Connections Pilgrimage Conference, Inniscorthy, Co.Wexford, Ireland.

2022

  • Queen's English Society: lecture on The English Ghost Story.
  • Interview as prizewinner at National Eisteddfod of Wales.
  • Reading at Abbey Hall Creative Space, Eye, Suffolk, for the River Waveney Trust
  • Reading at These Three Streams Festival, Llantwit Major.

2022

  • Queen's English Society: lecture on The English Ghost Story.
  • Interview as prizewinner at National Eisteddfod of Wales.
  • Reading at Abbey Hall Creative Space, Eye, Suffolk, for the River Waveney Trust
  • Reading at These Three Streams Festival, Llantwit Major.

2021

  • Lecture to The Honourable Society of Cymmrododion, Wales and Islam.

2020

  • North Wales International Music Festival, St Asaph  Readings and interview

2019

  • Residency at Jam on the Marsh Festival, New Romney, Kent

2018

  • Residency at Jam on the Marsh Festival, New Romney, Kent
  • Hiraeth- Erzolirzoli Wales-Cameroon anthology, edited by Eric Ngalle Charles
  • Museum of the Moon reading, Tintern Abbey, for Wye Valley Festival

2017

Teaching three-day creativity seminar in Vienna, Austria, for Goodenough College, London.

2016

  • Sequence commissioned to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan Disaster, with Tony Curtis and photographs by I.C. Rapoport
  • Edge Festival, Solva, Pembrokeshire
  • Llangwm Festival, Pembrokeshire
  • Keynote speech at opening of international conference of the British Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, Lampeter.
  • Chairing British Council discussion on Shakespeare and Wales at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, with Gwyneth Lewis and Rakie Ayola.
  • Reading with Kevin Crossley Holland, Temenos Academy, Lincoln Centre, London.

2014

  • Reading with Kevin Crossley Holland, Pembroke College, Cambridge Festival of Ideas
  • 'Meddwl' philosophy conference, Aberystwyth
  • Poem for Sacred Site and Sound Festival, Tintern.

2013

  • Poem for 'Ode to Samarkand' festival, Uzbekistan.
  • Cambridge Festival of Ideas.
  • Chelmsford Festival of Ideas.
  • PENfro Literary Festival, Pembrokeshire.
  • Hay Festival, launch of Alchemy of Water and R.S.Thomas centenary event

2012

  • 2012: Guardian Poem of the Week, 'Departed'.

2011

  • Oxfam Poetry series, London.
  • Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Panel discussion on mythology.
  • Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 'The Crescent and the Welsh.'
  • Cambridge Muslim College; 'Wales and Islam'.
  • Carnhuanawc Lecture; 'Wales and Islam': Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru.
  • Lecture on Bryan Martin Davies with Elin ap Hywel, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru
  • BBC Wales All Things Considered programme.
  • Hay Festival, session on The Dragon and the Crescent

2010

  • 'On the Border' series session with John Hegley at Chepstow.
  • Half-hour BBC Radio Four Great Lives programme about Simone Weil, with Eleanor Bron.

2009

  • North American tour: readings and artistic collaborations in Pennsylvania, Vermont and New York. Wales Arts International.
  • Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham, UK.
  • Harvard University, U.S.A. Lecture.

2008

  • Readings in Guglionesi, Italy.
  • Five literary readings in Argentina.

2007

  • North American tour: readings and launch of Everything Must Change in Delta, Pennsylvania; Westport, Connecticut, and Chrysler Building, New York, and lecture at Yale University, Massachussetts. Wales Arts International.
  • Memorial Poem for Children's Commissioner for Wales.
  • Hay on Wye Festival of Literature, Readings. Launch of 'Poets' Portraits' exhibition.
  • Imperial College, London. Lecture.
  • Artist in Residence in Summer school of the British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia, Norwich.
  • Subject of half-hour BBC Wales All Things Considered programme

2006

  • Delta, Pennsylvania. Readings
  • Cape Town, South Africa. University of the Western Cape. Lecture.

2005

  • Madrid, Spain. Launch of La Pais de la Borrina. British Council.
  • Canu'n Rhydd conference, Llandudno, Academi. Readings and panel.
  • Limerick University, Ireland. Lecture.

2004

  • Poesiefestival, Berlin. Translation workshops and readings. British Council / Welsh Literature Abroad
  • Israel and Palestine. Fact-finding visit. Israeli Foreign Ministry.
  • Greenbelt Arts Festival, Cheltenham. Readings and workshops.
  • NAASWCH Conference, Morgantown, WV, USA. Lectures.
  • Subject of half-hour Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol programme

2003

  • Commission by Academi for Great Cardiff Poem
  • Commission by HRH The Prince of Wales for poem for Llangollen Eisteddfod.
  • Edmonton, Canada. Lecture and readings at 'Culture and the State' conference. British Council.

2002

  • Sofia, Bulgaria. Readings and launch of Plamak Welsh edition. British Council.
  • Lublin, Poland. Lecture. British Council.
  • NAASWCH conference, Syracuse, NY. U.S.A. Two lectures.
  • College of William and Mary, Williamsburg. U.S.A. Lecture.
  • Commission by Wales Millennium Centre for poem for laying of foundation stone.
  • Hay on Wye Festival of Literature, Readings.

2001

  • Argentina, British Council.
  • European Round Table on Poetry, Riga, Latvia. Readings. British Council.
  • Argentina, British Council.
  • European Round Table on Poetry, Riga, Latvia. Readings. British Council.

2000

  • Wexford, Ireland. Reading. Academi.
  • Royal Festival Hall, London. Reading.