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"Absolutely world class." "Very moving and beautiful." "A joyful and life affirming event."
[audience feedback - Poets & Players, Manchester 2011]
forthcoming public events
[some highlights]
2020 onwards...
Date |
Venue |
Event |
Cost/Contact/Bookings |
Mon. 3rd June, 2024: 7pm onwards |
online (Ecopoetry virtual event, with Helina Hookoomsing) |
Cheltenham Poetry Festival - 'Ecopoetics' reading |
click here
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Thurs. 9th May, 2024: 6.45-8.45pm [for 10 weeks] |
Somerset House, London WC2R 1LA |
Poetry School course - 'Science & Poetry: The Laboratory of Verse' |
click here
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Sat. 28th October, 2023: 2.45-4.15pm |
Beerling Hall, Canterbury, CT1 2AP |
Canterbury Umbrella Festival - '16 Ways of Writing' |
POST-LOCKDOWN!
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Fri. 28th July, 2023: 9.30am then 2pm |
Gatehouse of Fleet, Scotland |
BIG LIT: '16 Ways to Write' w/shop + 'Soul Songs' reading |
POST-LOCKDOWN!
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Tuesday 11th April, 2023: 6.30pm |
88 Tavistock Pl., WC1H 9RS |
Lumen Poetry - Reading |
POST-LOCKDOWN!
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Monday 27th March, 2023: 7pm |
Oxford Stanza [Zoom] |
Moonbird : love poems - official launch |
ZOOM link here
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Tuesday 17th May, 2022: 5.30pm |
Borough Market Reading Round |
Royal Literary Fund Reading Event |
POST-LOCKDOWN!
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Wednesday 7th October, 2020: 7pm |
ZOOM event, during lockdown! |
UK launch of afterlove by CINNAMON PRESS |
Register here
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Arvon Courses (Mario Petrucci with co-tutor)
further details:
http://www.arvonfoundation.org/p3.html |
information:
see Arvon courses |
To be announced |
To be announced |
Course title: To be announced |
information: to book: Arvon website or phone
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Mario surveys the New Hull Truck Theatre prior to launching Larkin25 (June 2010).
"Moving, beautifully crafted, witty and thought provoking words."
Emily Penn (Director, Larkin25 festival)
FURTHER INFORMATION
& BOOKINGS
copyright mario petrucci 2001
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2019...
Date |
Venue |
Event |
Cost/Contact/Bookings |
Wednesday 3rd April, 2019: 7pm |
Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Road |
Eighty Four: A Poetry Anthology in aid of CALM |
Click here
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Saturday 6th July, 2019: 6pm |
Bradford Literary Festival, Waterstones |
UK launch of Beloved - "Hafez: A Bi-Lingual Reading" |
Click here
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Thursday 10th October, 2019: 7.30pm |
Chener Books, Dulwich |
UK launch: Isha Upanishad - Guillemot Press |
Click here
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2018...
Date |
Venue |
Event |
Cost/Contact/Bookings |
Thursday 1st February, 2018: evening |
All Saints Church, Lower Edmonton, Enfield |
For the Love of God: Poetry-Music [Hafez, Rumi, Saadi] |
Persian poetry
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Thursday 15th February, 2018: 6-8pm |
10 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL |
Poetry & Climate Change - Reading |
LAHP
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Saturday 24th February, 2018: 7.30pm |
Poetry Society, Betterton Street |
'Scientific Shuffle' Reading |
Click here
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Sunday 4th March, 2018: 7pm |
Buzzwords, Cheltenham |
Workshop + Reading |
Click here
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Tuesday 24th April, 2018: 7.15pm |
Dog House Pub, 293 Kennington Rd, SE11 6BY |
London Ecopoetry event |
Click here
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Friday 22nd June, 2018: 8pm |
The Dugdale Theatre, Enfield Town |
Poetry Reading |
Click here
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Friday 6th July, 2018: 7pm |
Lumen Poetry, 1 Buck St., Camden, NW1 8NJ |
Poetry Reading for the Homeless |
Click here
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Weekend, Sept. 8, 2018 |
Segora competition events: France |
Results, readings, workshops |
Click here
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Saturday 6th October, 2018: noon |
Hillingdon Literary Festival |
16 Ways Workshop |
Click here
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Thursday 29th November, 2018: 7pm |
Magma 72 Poetry Reading |
Climate change theme |
Click here
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2017...
Date |
Venue |
Event |
Cost/Contact/Bookings |
Saturday 18th March, 2017: 6.30pm |
Teignmouth Poetry Festival |
Competition Event - judge + Poetry Reading |
Click here
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Sunday 19th March, 2017: 10am - 1pm |
Teignmouth Poetry Festival |
16 Ways workshop |
Click here
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Wednesday 26th April, 2017: 4pm |
Kingston University |
16 Ways workshop + Poetry reading |
no link
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Saturday 10th June, 2017: 10.30am |
St Hilda's, Oxford |
Science & Poetry: SciPo 2017 + Poetry reading |
Click here
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2016...
Date |
Venue |
Event |
Cost/Contact/Bookings |
Saturday 30th January, 2016: 10am |
Essex C. Cricket Club, Chelmsford |
Poetry by Heart - judge [chair], Essex |
Click here
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Sunday 21st February, 2016: 10am-4pm |
Tunbridge Wells |
16 Ways: writing workshop |
no link
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Wednesday 24th February, 2016: 6pm |
Menzies Centre, King's College |
Katherine Gallagher: Festschrift evening |
no link
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Thursday 25th February, 2016: 4-6pm |
Lychee One: 38-50 Pritchards Rd, E2 9BJ |
Panel Discussion - 'City of the Future' [Chernobyl exhibition: multi-media installation, photographs, video, publications] |
click here
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Saturday 5th March, 2016: 2pm |
Bull Theatre, 68 High St, Barnet |
Barnet Competition Event [judge + reader] |
no link
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Saturday 16th April, 2016: evening |
Parish Centre, St John the Evangelist (Green Lanes) |
Palmers Green reading |
click here
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APRIL BOLTON/ HEBDEN mini-tour... |
(Readings & Workshops) |
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Thursday 28th April, 2016: 1-3pm |
Bolton University |
Writing Workshop [Bolton Uni. students only] |
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Thursday 28th April, 2016: 7.30pm |
Todmorden reading event [with Anne Caldwell] |
Reading: Kultura Event [Kava Cafe] |
click here
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Friday 29th April, 2016: 5.30pm (workshop); 7.45pm (reading) |
Hebden Bridge: 'Bookcase' events |
'16 Ways' writing workshop, then reading [with Anne Caldwell] |
no link available
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Post-April events for 2016... |
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Tuesday 3rd May, 2016: 7.30pm |
St. Albans/ Ver Poets |
Chernobyl: 'Heavy Water' theatrical performance & discussion |
no link
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Saturday 11th June, 2016: 3.45 for 4pm |
Platform Southwark - 1 Joan Street, SE1 |
Yesterday's News - Exhibition & Mario Petrucci reading [Chernobyl] |
Google for more event info.
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Saturday 9th July, 2016: 6pm |
Sands Films Studio: 82 St Marychurch St, SE16 4HZ |
Heavy Water: a film for Chernobyl - screening & discussion |
Click here for more info.
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Friday 4th November, 2016: 6.30 for 7pm [£5/4] |
Camden Poetry (Ver Poets); Trinity United Reform Church, 1 Buck St., NW1 8NJ |
Chernobyl: 'Heavy Water' theatrical performance & Q/A [+ open mic.] |
click here for further info.
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2015...
Date |
Venue |
Event |
Cost/Contact/Bookings |
Thursday 22nd January, 2015: evening |
Keats House, Hampstead |
Poetry by Heart - judge [chair], North London |
Click here
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Thursday 29th January, 2015: all day |
Manchester Central Library |
Poetry by Heart - Teachers' Day [Tutor] |
Click here
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Saturday 7th February, 2015: 10am - 2pm |
Bedford Library |
Poetry by Heart - judge (2 counties): Hertfordshire [chair] + Bedfordshire |
Click here
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Wednesday 11th February, 2015: evening |
Colchester Arts Centre |
Poetry by Heart - judge [chair], Essex |
Click here
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Saturday 7th March, 2015: 7.30pm |
Dugdale Centre, Enfield Town |
Michael Donaghy commemoration event/ reading |
no link
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Saturday 14th March, 2015: 2pm |
Bull Theatre, Barnet |
Barnet Poetry Competition [judge + reader] |
no link
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Thursday 9th April, 2015: 6.30pm |
Geological Society of London (Piccadilly) |
Map: anthology launch [Worple Press] |
no link
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Thursday 16th April, 2015: evening |
Poetry Cafe: Poetry Society |
Perdika Press: launch of two F.T. Prince pamphlets |
no link
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Tuesday 28th April, 2015: 8pm |
Camden Centre, Market Square, Tunbridge Wells |
Kent & Sussex Competition [judge + reader] - Awards night |
Click here
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Sunday 7th June, 2015: 7.30pm |
Torriano House, 99 Torriano Avenue, Kentish Town, NW5 2RX |
Torriano - Poets from the floor welcome |
Click here [entry: £5/£4]
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Sunday 19th July, 2015: all day |
Writers’ Centre Norwich |
Manuscript Masterclass: putting a collection together |
book here
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Saturday 26th September, 2015: 7.30pm |
Poetry Cafe, Betterton Street, London |
Reading from crib + other poets |
more info here
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Fri. 23rd - Sat. 24th October, 2015 |
Torbay Festival of Poetry |
Fri. 8pm Reading; Sat. morning Masterclass |
click for details
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Wed. 11th November, 2015: 6.30pm onwards |
Barbican Library, London |
Long Poem Magazine readings |
click for details
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Sunday 6th December, 2015: 7 - 9.30pm |
Cambridge Festival of Change: Pivotal/CB1/ArtCOP21 [Espresso Library, East Rd.] |
Film screening of 'Amazonia' + Poetry reading |
no link
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2014...
Date |
Venue |
Event |
Cost/Contact/Bookings |
Friday 17th January, 2014: 10am - 3.30pm |
Birmingham City University |
'Poetry by Heart' Teacher Day |
no link
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Thursday 6th February, 2014: 1-5 pm |
Soho Theatre, London [W1D 3NE] |
Poetry by Heart Competition - Central London contest [Judge] |
Click here
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Sunday-Monday 13-14th April, 2014 |
Arsenal Book Fair: Kyiv |
various talks & readings |
Click here
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Sunday 27th April, 2014: circa 3pm |
Wenlock Poetry Festival |
'Maps & Legends' Nine Arches reading |
Click here or here
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Thurs 15th - Sun 18th May, 2014 |
Various [Readings, Film, Workshop, School visit] |
Guernsey Literary Festival |
Click here
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Wednesday 6th August, 2014: 8pm |
Saison Poetry Library, Southbank Centre |
Strange Meetings: an evening of War Poetry with Mario Petrucci |
book (places limited)
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Wednesday 24th September, 2014: 8pm |
Lauderdale House, North London |
Poetry reading |
click here
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Thurs 2nd October, 2014: 7.30 - 9.30pm |
Chichester Library |
National Poetry Day reading & open mic |
more here...
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Sunday 12th October, 2014: various times |
Ilkley Literature Festival |
Poetry Reading, Workshop & Film Screening |
festival programme here
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Wednesday 15th October, 2014: 7pm |
Royal College of Surgeons, Holborn [Poetry Reading] |
'The Bone Ship': reading & talk on the Through the Door commission |
FREE but must book here
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Tuesday 21st October, 2014: 7.30pm |
Blue Bus: The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit St., WC1N [£5 or £3] |
Preview of crib [plus a variety of other poems] |
Google for details...
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Tuesday 4th November, 2014: evening event |
Southbank Members' event |
talk: war poetry & war poets |
book free tickets here
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Thursday 6th November, 2014: 6.30 for 7pm |
Official Enitharmon launch: crib [10 Bury Place, WC1A 2JL] |
2nd book in Enitharmon i tulips trilogy |
general Enitharmon link
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Monday 24th November, 2014: 7pm |
British Library, London [Poetry Reading] |
Through the Door commission [Poet in the City/ Archives for London] |
link not available
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Wednesday 3rd December, 2014: 8pm |
Lauderdale House poetry anthology launch |
Of Love and Loss anthology |
link not available
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2013...
Date |
Venue |
Event |
Cost/Contact/Bookings |
Tuesday 8th January, 2013: 6.30pm |
Waterstones, 203-205 Piccadilly |
MC for Poet in the City 'drop-in' event, theme: Gilding the Lily |
Click here
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Tuesday 5th February, 2013: 6.30pm |
Waterstones, 203-205 Piccadilly |
MC for Poet in the City 'drop-in' event, theme: Health |
Click here
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Wednesday 6th March, 2013: 10am - 3pm |
National Portrait Gallery, London |
National Portrait Gallery and NAWE: 'Poetry by Heart' Teacher Day |
Click here
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Tuesday 2nd April, 2013: 6.30pm |
Waterstones, 203-205 Piccadilly |
MC for Poet in the City 'drop-in' event, theme: Trees |
Click here
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Saturday 20th April, 2013: all day |
Leicestershire Stanza Group/ Poetry School |
16 Ways writing workshop |
Click here
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Thursday 25th April, 2013: 8.30pm |
The Grey Horse & Ram Jam Club, Kingston |
Poetry Reading: Rhythm & Muse |
Click here
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Sat/ Sun 18/19 May, 2013: midnight - dawn |
Norwich Writers' Centre |
Overnight writing workshop |
Click here
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Friday 5th July, 2013: 7.00pm |
1 Buck St, Camden Town |
Reading: Camden Poetry Series |
Click here
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Wednesday 14th August, 2013: 11pm |
BBC Radio 4 broadcast |
'Summer Nights' (1.3): 50 Shades of Green |
See BBC website
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Saturday 5th October, 2013: 7.15pm |
Cramphorn Theatre, Chelmsford |
Essex Poetry Festival |
Click here
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Thursday 10th October, 2013: 7pm-9pm |
Keats House, 10 Keats Grove, Hampstead, London NW3 2RR |
Poetry Meets Biomedical Science Project event |
Click here
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Friday 25th October, 2013: 7.30pm-9.30pm |
Leicester Quakers Centre |
Reading: Nine Arches / anima |
Click here
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Tuesday 29th October, 2013: all day |
Saison Poetry Library [Southbank Centre] |
60th anniversary commission/ events |
Click here
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Thursday 31st October, 2013: see festival site |
Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea |
Workshop & Reading: Dylan Thomas Festival |
Click here
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2012...
Date |
Venue |
Event |
Cost/Contact/Bookings |
Tuesday 10th January, 2012: 6.30pm |
Waterstones, 203-205 Piccadilly |
MC for Poet in the City 'drop-in' event, theme: Resolutions |
Click here
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Tuesday 6th March, 2012: 6.30pm |
Waterstones, 203-205 Piccadilly |
MC for Poet in the City 'drop-in' event, theme: Explorers |
Click here
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Fri 23/ Sat 24 March, 2012 |
Isle of Wight |
Reading + Writing workshop |
Click here
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30 March - 7 April, 2012 |
Residential course - Almassera, Spain |
'Elements of Surprise' - jumping one's groove |
Click here
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Saturday 14th April, 2012: 2-4pm |
Wenlock Poetry Festival (anthology reading) |
Shropshire Butterfly event |
Click here
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Sunday 15th April, 2012: 4-6pm |
Wenlock Poetry Festival (The Edge Arts Centre) |
Petrucci - poetry reading |
Click here
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Tuesday 1st May, 2012: 6.30pm |
Waterstones, 203-205 Piccadilly |
MC for Poet in the City 'drop-in' event, theme: Gardens |
Click here
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Friday 4th May, 2012: 7-9pm |
Chipping Campden (Upper Room, Town Hall) |
launch - the waltz in my blood |
Click here
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Saturday 5th May, 2012: 10.30am-4pm |
Chipping Campden (Seymour House) |
Writing workshop - 16 Ways to Write a Poem |
Click here
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Wednesday 18 July, 2012: 6.30-8pm |
Dugdale Centre, Enfield |
Enfield Competition - Awards night |
Click here
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Friday 27 July, 2012 (onwards) |
Olympics 2012 |
major 3D poetry installation [Thames Millennium Bridge] |
Click here
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Tuesday 7th August, 2012: 6.30pm |
Waterstones, 203-205 Piccadilly |
MC for Poet in the City 'drop-in' event, theme: Science: Inner & Outer Space |
Click here
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Tuesday 2nd October, 2012: 6.30pm |
Waterstones, 203-205 Piccadilly |
MC for Poet in the City 'drop-in' event, theme: Night |
Click here
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Nat. Poetry Day, 4th October, 2012: 1-6pm |
Southbank Centre, London |
Reading for National Poetry Day Live [Poetry Soc./ Southbank Centre] |
Click here
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2011...
Date |
Venue |
Event |
Cost/Contact/Bookings |
Saturday 5th March, 2011: 2.30-4.30pm |
Whitworth Gallery, Oxford Road [Manchester] |
Manchester launch of i tulips |
Click here
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Saturday 5th March, 2011: 6-7.30pm |
Int. Anthony Burgess Foundation [Manchester] |
Screening of Heavy Water: a film for Chernobyl |
Click here
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Sunday 6th March, 2011: 10am-4pm |
Imperial War Museum North / Poetry School [Manchester] |
Writing about War: workshop |
Click here
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Thursday 21st April, 2011: 7.30pm |
The Poetry Cafe, Betterton Street, Covent Garden |
London reading from i tulips
[London Literature Lounge & New Trespass Magazine event] |
Click here
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Sunday 1st May, 2011: 2-3pm |
Wenlock Poetry Festival |
Reading from i tulips |
Click here
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Saturday 7th May, 2011: 10.30am-4pm |
Chipping Campden Lit. Fest. |
Poetry Day: Writing Workshop |
Click here
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Saturday 7th May, 2011: 4.15-5pm |
Chipping Campden Lit. Fest. |
Gardens and Icebergs: Poetry Reading |
Click here
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Saturday 21st May, 2011: 2pm |
Shakespeare Memorial Room, Birmingham |
Masterclass: "16 Ways to Write a Poem" |
Click here
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Monday July 11th, 2011: 11am - 4pm |
Architectural Association, Bedford Square, London |
"UNKNOWN FIELDS: From the ATOMIC to the COSMIC". Public Forum |
Click here
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Saturday 23rd July, 2011: 2pm |
Shakespeare Memorial Room, Birmingham |
"Surprising Yourself" writing workshop |
Click here
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Sunday 21st August, 2011: 11.30am – 1pm |
The Sustainability Centre, Hampshire |
Uncivilisation Conference, Staying Awake: Poetry as source of sustenance & suspicion in the Sustainable Age |
Click here
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Wednesday 7th September, 2011: 07:30 - 10:30pm |
Concrete at Pizza East; 56 Shoreditch High St., London |
The Special Relationship - Yarn Fest International |
Click here
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Tuesday 20th September, 2011: 7.30pm |
The Lamb, 94 Lambs Conduit Street WC1 |
Blue Bus poetry reading |
mmpetrucci@hotmail.com
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Saturday 24th September, 2011: 6.15pm |
Marlborough Literary Festival |
Poetry reading |
Click here
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Thursday 29th September, 2011: 7.30pm |
Chichester Library |
Poetry reading |
mmpetrucci@hotmail.com
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Tuesday 4th October, 2011: 6.30pm |
Waterstones, 203-205 Piccadilly |
MC for Poet in the City 'drop-in' event, theme: London |
Click here
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Wednesday 12th October, 2011: 7-8pm |
Cheltenham Festival |
Our Common Ground Anthology reading |
Click here
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Thursday 13th October, 2011: 8-10pm |
Lauderdale House, London |
Poetry reading |
Click here
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Tuesday 1st November, 2011: 6.30pm |
Waterstones, 203-205 Piccadilly |
MC for Poet in the City 'drop-in' event, theme: Yesterday |
Click here
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Thursday 17th November, 2011: 7pm |
Romanian Cultural Institute, London |
Poet in the City event on Romanian poet, Vasile Gârneţ |
Click here
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Friday 25th November, 2011: evening |
Judith E Wilson studio, Cambridge |
Poetry reading - i tulips |
Click here
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14-16 December, 2011 |
Universidad Complutense, Madrid |
"Reading Nature": British Council talk & reading |
Click here
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Sunday 18 December, 2011: 7pm (£5/4) |
Waterloo Press, Iambic Arts Theatre, Brighton |
Brighton launch of the waltz in my blood |
Click here
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2010...
Date |
Venue |
Event |
Cost/Contact/Bookings |
Saturday 13 February, 2010, 12.30-2pm |
LSE/ The London Magazine event |
Talk: Literature and the Sciences: Where do they meet? |
Click here
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Tuesday 9 March 2010, 8.00pm |
CB1, Cambridge (The Michaelhouse)
see: www.cb1poetry.org.uk/2007/09/michaelhouse.html |
Reading: Launch of i tulips |
mmpetrucci@hotmail.com
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Saturday 13 March 2010, 2.00pm |
The Bull Theatre, Barnet |
Reading & Adjudication of Barnet Poetry Competition |
mmpetrucci@hotmail.com
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Thursday 18 March 2010, 7.00pm |
The Dugdale Centre, Thomas Hardy House, Enfield |
Reading: Launch of i tulips |
mmpetrucci@hotmail.com
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Sunday 21 March 2010, 3.00pm |
StAnza Festival, St Andrews (St John's Undercroft) |
Reading: Launch of i tulips |
mmpetrucci@hotmail.com
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Tuesday 27 April 2010, 5.00pm |
Sussex Writers |
Reading and Discussion: Poeclectics |
mmpetrucci@hotmail.com
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Thursday 22nd April, 6.45pm |
EYPE event |
Reading and Discussion: Heavy Water film |
followed by launch reading for i tulips |
click here for EYPE site
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Monday 24 May, 7pm - £5 |
The Golden Hour: Literary Cabaret |
Music, Poetry & surprises. Gig + Party! |
Venue: 'Green Note' - 106 Parkway, Camden |
mmpetrucci@hotmail.com
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Saturday 29 May, 2010, 3pm |
Dark Mountain festival event UNCIVILISATION 2010 |
Heavy Water: film, poems, talk |
Click here
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Sunday 11 July, 2010, 10am - 4pm |
Campanile Hotel, Dartford |
Writing workshop |
Click here
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Wednesday, 4th August, 2010 (evening) |
Poetry Library event - Enitharmon Press |
with Myra Schneider, Martyn Crucefix, Anna Robinson. |
Click here
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Wednesday 6 October 2010, 7.00pm |
Barbican Centre, London |
Main London launch: i tulips |
mmpetrucci@hotmail.com or ring 020 7638 8891.
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Friday 15th October 2010, 7.00pm |
Electric Theatre, Guildford |
i tulips |
mmpetrucci@hotmail.com or www.guildfordbookfestival.co.uk
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Thursday 21 October 2010, 8.00pm |
Nottingham |
Reading: Launch of i tulips |
mmpetrucci@hotmail.com
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