This is a page of talks, readings and other media in which my poems have featured.
Poems from The Afterlife
You can listen to Poem of Leaves here.
You can listen to Sitting With Your Body here.
You can listen to The Last Time I Saw Mary here.
You can listen to Teaching Writing Theory here.
With thanks to Malcolm Doney and Martin Wroe from the Lifelines project.
And other recordings
Radio
May 1, 2016, on Jane Kenyon’s Let Evening Come, from Lifesaving Poems, Something Understood, BBC Radio 4
January 18, 2016, A Pause for Thought, read by Jim Harris on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show
June 16, 2015, Arena (RTE) interview with Seán Rocks, produced by Sinéad Mooney
Readings
This is a recording of a reading at the Troubadour Coffee House, on 22 October 2012
With thanks to Anne-Marie Fyfe.
Life Begins With Cancer, Greenbelt, 2013
This is the recording of my reading ‘Life Begins With Cancer’, recorded at the Greenbelt Festival on Sunday 25th August, 2013 in the literature Hub.
It includes readings from Riddance and my memoir, Love for Now.
This is an edited version of the reading and does not include the Q and A.
With thanks to Katherine Venn, Andrew Tate, all of the venue crew, and Rowena Gliddon.
These recordings were made at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, 2002, and are used here with kind permission of The Poetry Trust.
They were originally published in Nowhere Better Than This (Worple Press, 2002).
Driving to Switzerland
What They Left Behind
My Fox
Leonard Cohen is my Barber
The Difference
The School Walk
In conversation
This is a recording of a talk I gave at Greenbelt Festival in 2019, celebrating the life and vision of the Australian biker-preacher John Smith.
This is a recording of a reading at Holy Ground, Exeter Cathedral, on 14 October 2012
With thanks to Anna Norman-Walker and the Holy Ground team.
Lifesaving Poems 