Podcasts and public talks

‘Talking Poetics’ with Gareth Farmer (November 2022)

On Bob Kaufman, Pathologies of Solitude (2020)

City of Asylum, Pittsburgh (27 February 2019)

Holloway Poetry Reading Series, University of California, Berkeley (13 February 2019)

Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile (3 January 2019)

Stillpoint Gallery, London (15 April 2018)

London Review of Books Bookshop (5 February 2018)

‘The Determination of Love’, Warton Annual Lecture, British Academy (25 April 2017)

No Art: Discussion with Ben Lerner, LRB Bookshop (11 October 2016)

Documentary on Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science, for the Korean Broadcasting Service

Documentary on Creativity and Artificial Intelligence, for TV Chosun, South Korea (interviewed 15 March 2016; broadcast May 2016)

Beyt el Kottab poetry festival and roundtable at the American University of Beirut (8 May)

RichMix Cultural Centre, London (28 June 2014)

‘The Exponential Horn’, one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum’s Virgin Media Lab and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

Polyply, Centre for Collaborative Exchange, University of London (5 June 2014)

‘A Few Don’ts’, BBC Radio 4, contributor (broadcast 2 December 2012)

‘A Change of Culture’, HowTheLightGetsIn Philosophy and Music Festival, Hay on Wye (7 June 2012)

National Poetry Day on ‘World Update’ with Dan Damon, BBC World Service (6 October 2005)

Performances

2022: Centre for Poetry and Poetics, University of Sheffield (28 April); ‘Poetry of Witnessing’, Conversation with Rachel Zolf, Salon, QMUL (27 April)

2021: Byron bookstore, Barcelona, Spain (11 December); Dòria Llibres, Mataró, Spain (9 December); The 87 Press, London (8 September); Brooklyn Rail, online (30 April)

2019: Cossoul, Lisbon, Portugal (5 November); Counterpath, Denver (28 April); Boise State University (27 April); Alley Cat Books, San Francisco (15 February); Eastern Michigan University (7 February); Valparaíso, Chile (5 January)

2018     Miami University of Ohio (4 October); Café Oto Project space, London (15 July); Theologies of Reading, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge (24 May); Hard to Get, Queens’ College Oxford (11 May); Salon, University of Westminster (13 March)

2017     Edinburgh International Book Festival (19 August); Bethlem Gallery, Kent (3 June); Hi Zero, The Hope and Ruin, Brighton (30 May); ICA London (25 May); One Day Without Us, I-Klectic, London (20 February); Contraband, London (12 January)

2016     Inside-Out/Outside In festival, Glasgow (5 October); The Day Frank O’Hara Died, ICA, London (24 July); Yale University (4 April); Zinc Bar, New York (1 April)

2015     University of East Anglia Poetry Festival (18 April); St George English Bookshop, Berlin (25 March)

2014     University of Sheffield (26 November); Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris (13 November);       Serpentine Gallery, London (1 November); launch of Praccrit at Drink, Shop and Do, London (29 October); Helsinki Poetics Conference, Antikvariaatti Sofiassa (21 October); Bookcafe, Turku, Finland (24 October); Hi Zero, Brighton (14 October); The Jericho Tavern, Oxford (5 October); ‘Poetic Genre and Social Imagination’, University of Chicago (9 May); Princeton University (16 April); Amid the Ruins, Daniel Blau Gallery, Hoxton Square (5 March)

2013     The Golden Boat poetry and translation residency, Škocjan and Ljubljana, Slovenia (1-8 September); Vogue Fabrics, London (15 August); SoundEye international poetry festival, Cork, Ireland (5-7 July)

2012     Hay Poetry Jamboree, Hay on Wye (7 June); HiZero, Brighton (25 April); The Other Room, Manchester (29 February); Lyric and Polis, University College Falmouth (18 February); 3 AM Magazine’s Maintenant Camarade, Rich Mix Centre, London (11 February); Foule Reading Series, Pembroke College, Cambridge (14 January)

2011     City Art Centre, Edinburgh (22 January)

2010     Segue Reading Series, Bowery Poetry Club, New York (18 December 2010); Centre for Creative Collaboration, University of London (14 October); Double Change, Paris (23 September); Intimacies conference, University of Loughborough (10-12 September); Hiding Place gallery, Philadelphia, USA (5 August); London Cross-Genre Festival, University of Greenwich (14-16 July); Memorial readings for Goran Printz-Pahlson, University of Cambridge (28 June); Sussex Poetry Festival, University of Sussex and Nightingale Theatre, Brighton (16-18 April); Queens’ College, Cambridge (29 January)

2009     Openned, The Foundry, London (1 November); Cafe Oto, London (15 May); Parasol Unit Gallery, London (30 April)

2007     Berlin Poetry Hearings (16-18 November); Notre Dame University, University of Chicago, Miami University of Ohio, SUNY Buffalo, and Harvard University. This reading tour was sponsored by the Chicago Review, to coincide with a special issue dedicated to my work and that of three of my contemporaries. The Runnymede International Literary Festival, Royal Holloway (3 Feb).

2006     The Foundry, London (1 November); the Cambridge Experimental Women’s Poetry Conference, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge (6 October); The Arts Centre, Dundee (3 June); the Centre Internationale de Poésie Marseille, at a special event honouring Barque Press (26 May); Hammersmith Irish Centre, London (24 February)

2005     Reading and paper in Vancouver, Canada, sponsored by the British Council and the Kootenay School of Writing (17-18 October); Crossing the Line, Museum Street, London (7 October); Octagon Arts Centre, Bolton (18 April); Faculty of English, University of Cambridge (21 February)

Lectures

‘Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Poetics’, The Patterson Lecture, Queens College, Cambridge (2 May 2022)

‘Poetry and Bondage’, Solitude Project, QMUL (8 December 2019)

‘The Sound Came from Everywhere and Nowhere: African-American Songmaking, The Collectors, and the Fantasy of Origins in Twentieth-Century Lyric’, University of Coimbra, Portugal (6 November 2019)

‘Poetry and Bondage: Constraint and the practice of lyric’, University of Lisbon, Portugal (5 November 2019)

‘Poetry and Bondage: Solitude and Solidarity in the 19th Century and Contemporary Prison’, Lecture, Colorado University, Boulder (29 April 2019)

‘“The Sound Came from Everywhere and Nowhere”: African-American Songmaking, The Collectors, and the Fantasy of Origins in Twentieth-Century Lyric’, Lecture at the University of Chicago (24 April 2019)

‘The Music of Fetters: Thomas Wyatt and the Beginning of English Carceral Lyric’, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (7 March 2019)

‘Poetry and Bondage’, Lecture, Centre for Humanities, University of Pittsburgh (28 February 2019)

‘Poetry and Bondage: M. NourbeSe Philip, and the Story that Cannot be Told’, Lecture, Eastern Michigan University (7 February 2019)

‘Poetry and Bondage’, Po-Ex Symposium, Keynote; at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile (3 January 2019)

‘Only the Soldered Mouth Can Tell: Emily Dickinson, M. NourbeSe Philip, and the Story that Cannot be Told’, Rushton Lecture, University of Virginia (7 November 2018)

‘Drone Poetics’ at &Now and Everything After, University of Notre Dame (5-7 October 2018)

‘Theologies of Reading’, CRASSH, University of Cambridge (24 May 2018)

‘Poetry and the Pleasures of Bondage’, Kings College London (8 November 2016)

‘Lyric Inside: on Poetry and Prisons’, Inside-Out / Outside-In, University of Glasgow (5-7 October 2016)

‘Poetry and [The Pleasures of] Bondage’, Poetic Measures, York University (1-2 July 2016)

‘Drone Poetics’, the Art of Logistics, Queen Mary University of London (3 June 2016)

‘Poetry and Bondage, Halpern to Wyatt’, Yale University (4 April 2016)

‘Poetry and Bondage, Halpern to Wyatt’, New York University (1 April 2016)

‘Poetry and Bondage, Dickinson to Philip’, Queen Mary University of London (14 January 2016)

‘Winnicott and Poetic Practice’, Donald Winnicott and the History of the Present (Roehampton University, 20-22 November 2015)

‘To Weep Irish’, ‘Tears and Smiles, Medieval to Early Modern’, Senate House, London (7 October 2015)

‘Hubbub and Satire’, Renaissance Society of America annual conference, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (25 March 2015)

‘Poetry and Bondage’, University of Kent (10 December 2014)

‘Death and Space’, Emotions, Embodiment and Death, Centre for the History of the Emotions, QMUL (2 June 2014)

‘Stripping Lycidas’, ‘Poetic Genre and Social Imagination’, University of Chicago (9 May 2014)

‘Conceptual Writing and Bondage’, University of Reading Graduate Seminar (4 February 2013)

‘To Weep Irish: Mourning and the Law’ (Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Science, Amherst College, Massachusetts, 28 November 2012)

Talk at the University of Chicago study abroad centre (5 November 2012)

‘Poetry and Bondage’, Historical Materialism conference (8 November 2012)

‘Death and the Contemporary’ panel discussion, Inside-Out Festival, Somerset House (23 October 2012)

Conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012)  

‘Melting in Renaissance Poetry’, University of Bristol (1 May 2012)

‘Echo, Irony and Repetition in the Poetry of Denise Riley and John James’, Institute for English Studies (17 November 2010)

‘“I am in the place of equivalence”: Subjects and their Objects in Recent British Poetry’, St John’s College, Cambridge (20 October 2010)

‘Frank O’Hara, Distraction and Absorption on Second Avenue’, University of London, Paris (24 September 2010)

‘Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660’, Gothic Renaissance (University of Cologne, 3-5 December 2009)

City of London School literary festival – talk and poetry reading (12 May 2009)

‘Animate Work’, University of Aberystwyth (30 March 2009)

‘Frank O’Hara, Distraction and Absorption on Second Avenue’, University of Sussex (April 2008)

‘Making Use of This Pain: A Report from the John Wieners Archives’, Birkbeck (April 2008)

‘Poetry and Globalisation’, University of Southampton (January 2008)

‘An Interpretation of (some early modern) Dreams’, University of Sussex (7 February 2007)

‘On Poetry and Public Pleasure: a reading of Tom Raworth’, Poetry and Public Language (University of Exeter and Dartington College of Arts, 30-31 March 2007)

‘Katherine Philips and the Politics of Platonic Friendship’, Poetry and Politics (University of Stirling, 13-16 July 2006)

‘Ghostly Presences in English Civil War Popular Literature’, Space, Haunting, Discourse (Karlstad University, Sweden, 15-18 June 2006)

New Readings of British Contemporary Poetry (University of Dundee, 3 June 2006)

‘Personalism and Abstraction and Some Contemporary Poetry’, Kootenay School of Writing (Vancouver, 18 September 2005).  Sponsored by the British Council

‘Outcast Freaks and Womanish Hearts’, University of East Anglia (February 2005)

Poetry Publishing Panel with Michael Schmidt (Carcanet) and Matthew Hollis (Faber), New Writing Types, Arts Council England East (Norwich, 10-14 November 2004)

Reading and discussion with Professor David Trotter and Vahni Capildeo, English Unbound (Queen Mary and University of Cambridge, 5-6 November 2004)

‘‘These Dear Relicks”: Abiding Grief in Reformation England’, Bare Ruined Choirs? Pre-Reformation Religious Culture in Early Modern British Literature, 1560-1660 (University of Leiden, Netherlands, October 2004)

‘“Not to die, but to be translated”: Charismatic dying in the Tower’, Renaissance Imprisonment 1450-1700 (Historical Royal Palaces, Tower of London, September 2004)

‘Speed, Source, Space: How to Get Public’, Incubation: The 3rd trAce International Symposium on Writing and the Internet (Nottingham Trent University, 12-14 July 2004).  Invited by the Poetry Society

Reading and conversation about my work, University of Cambridge (February 2004)

Round-table participant, Partly Writing 1 (Dartington College of Arts, January 2002) and Partly Writing 3 (University of Southampton, February 2004)

‘John Wieners on Breaking Up’, University of Kent, Canterbury (2002)

‘Directing Tragedy: the Spectacular Executions of Strafford, Laud and Charles I’, University of Cambridge (2001)

‘100 Days, Poetic Pathos and Political Apathy’, Birkbeck, University of London (October 2001)

‘Blood on their Heads: Spectacular Executions of the 1640s’, Cultural Histories of Blood (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, September 2001)