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 I am so excited to be invited to headline at Verbose's return to real life at the amazing Kings Arms, Salford 

As a poet with over 20 years corporate experience I want to bring poetry into the business world, through workshops, internal communication and marketing. 

I was thrilled to collaborate with the incredible team at Baba + Boo on a poem about Hope for the launch of their Spring 2021 collection.

A poem I wrote in response to the outpouring of women's stories online following the devastating murder of Sarah Everard was included in UN Women's first ever virtual gallery. 'A Safe Space' is a collection of art, photography, poetry music and stories imagining and demanding safer spaces for women. 

A highlight of summer 2021 was hosting workshops for Water Aid at Worthy Pastures (aka the home of Glastonbury Festival)

I am delighted to be the first poet in residence of the Be Braver collective, an inspirational collective who inspire me daily.

I was honoured to be the lead writer for the Visual Verse June edition which was curated by Master House Publishing. Visual Verse has been a wonderful part of my poetry journey. Each month they ask for poetic/prose responses to artwork and curate a beautiful collection of poems. I am lucky to have had a few of my poems selected in the past, so to be a lead writer was a huge privilege. 

In collaboration with Whats the Sketch theatre co I curated and performed at a poetry show in the woods at Into the Wild coffee shack in August. (Photo credit Karen Herman Wright)

I am deligheted to be taking part in my first in real life open mic since the pandemic as part of  'A Lovely Word' on 1 July 2021 in Liverpool.

On Sunday 13 June I made it to the semi-finals in Belfast Book Festival's Poetry Slam, which was held online. It was such an incredible evening, fizzing with talent and a joy to be part of. 

On 1 June 2021 I headlined Testify Poetry. Testify is one of the first open mics I ever attended in real life in 2019 and they became part of my lockdown routine on zoom in 2020/2021. It was an absolute privilege to headline with this wonderful community of poets and poetry lovers. An evening in lockdown I will never forget!

 I recently joined the team at the Poetry Global Network as an occasional UK correspondent of The Poetry Times, a weekly YouTube/Facebook broadcast about the global poetry scene. 

See Episode 4 for an interview with me about my debut poetry collection.

I was delighted that one of my poems featured on The Mancs social channels in August. 

I was delighted to run a poetry workshop on the theme of connection in collaboration with Comma Press and Oldham Libraries.

I ran a wonderfully received workshop fro CIPD Manchester in September 2021 - take a look at their blog for more details.