Lesley Saunders

poet and educationalist

Schedule of public poetry readings and performances 2012

Here are the main poetry readings and performances I’m doing in 2012. 

Spring 2012

Sunday 12 February: lunchtime reading with other poets in Great Expectations Hotel, London Street, Reading, to launch the anthology A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens published by Two Rivers Press

Friday 2 March: daytime reading with other poets as part of the Bath Litfest

Wednesday 14 March:  evening reading with Kelley Swain at the Whipple Museum, Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Science Festival

Saturday 17 March: performance of ‘Some Languages Are Hard to Dream In’ with the dancer Liza Wedgwood at 7.30 pm in the hall next to Star Anise Cafe, Stroud, Gloucestershire

Forthcoming:

Saturday 16 June:  featured poet at the Bath Royal Scientific and Literary Institute

Saturday 14 September: performance of ‘Some Languages Are Hard to Dream In’ with the dancer Liza Wedgwood at St Ives Arts Club, Cornwall

Recent reading venues include the Bath LitFest; Swindon Arts Centre; Henley Literary Festival; Acton Court, Iron Acton; Glanfa Stage, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff; Poetry and Voice conference, University of Chichester; Abbey House Gardens, Malmesbury; Turbine House, Reading, with Kate Noakes as part of a collaborative project about rivers and water led by Ann Rapstoff and Hilary Kneale; the Museum of English Rural Life; the Poets Cafe, Reading as guest poet; the Troubadour, London, as the showcase poet for Magma 44; Filthy McNastys, London; the Artsbar Cafe, Wokingham; the Bingham Library, Cirencester; Kellogg College, Oxford; Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.