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Public Talks

Poetry Readings and Invited Talks

  • Reading at World Book Day, Verbal Arts Centre, Derry-Londonderry, April 2024
  • Guest speaker at a.r.t.e.s. forum Challenging surroundings, University of Cologne, July 2023
  • Reading Poets’ Night, Heine Haus, Düsseldorf, Sept 2022
  • Guest speaker at Creative Writing Open Seminar Series, University of Kent, Nov 2021
  • Reading at European Poetry Festival Ireland, Riverbank Arts Centre, April 2019
  • Guest speaker at School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent, March 2018

Conference Talks

  • “Re-crafting Creative Writing Teaching in the Age of AI”, European Association for Creative Writing Programmes 7th International Conference: Writing in the Real World, 15–17 May 2025, FIAP & Aleph Écriture, Paris
  • “Teaching/Learning Creative Writing in a Non-Native Environment”, Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference, 15–16 July 2023, University College London
  • "Show and Tell: Roundtable on Practice-Based Research and Creative Writing PhDs”, (Panel Organiser), ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference: Epochs, Ages, and Cycles: Time and the Environment, 3 September 2022 (Online Day), Northumbria University
  • “Ecotranslation and Democratic Ecologies”, English: Shared Futures, 8-9 July 2022, Manchester/Salford University
  • “Ecopoethics in Rita Wong’s Forage: A Creative-Critical Inquiry”, The 137th Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 6-9 January 2022, MLA, Washington DC
  • “‘m • y x as in xylem:’ Towards a Poethics of Eco-translation”, International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies 7th Conference: The Cultural Ecology of Translation, 14–17 September 2021, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  • “Poetry for Future”, Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference, 10 July 2021
  • “‘Gespräch über Bäume:’ Creative Writing in German Academic Perspective” (with PD Dr Sonja Frenzel), Futures for Creative Writing Online Conference, 21–22 May 2021, University of East Anglia
  • “Ecopoet(h)ical Translations between Humans and More-Than-Humans”, The Insectile, 31 January 2020, Universität zu Köln
  • “Ecopoetics, Anthropo-Scenes, Borrowed Landscapes. Translating (with) Matter”, Biennial ASLE-UKI Conference: Co-Emergence, Co-Creation, Co-Existence, 4–6 September 2019, University of Plymouth
  • “Writing in (M)other Tongues, Finding Poetry in Translation”, Associated Writing Programmes Ireland First Conference: The Writer’s Voice, 25–26 April 2019, University College Dublin
  • “Trans-lating Nature: The Art of Ecopoetry. Go to the World.”, ASLE International Conference on Environmental Humanities: Stories, Myths and Arts to Envision a Change, 3–6 July 2018, Universidad de Alcalá
  • “Sounding Places: Ec(h)otranslations”, Bangor AHRC International Conference: Poetry and Sound in Expanded Translation III, 4–6 April 2018, University of Bangor