My new poetry collection What Data Saw reimagines Data as a mythological being in the process of becoming. Launching at The Exhibit Bar, Balham, Thu 22 October, 7pm start. Tickets from lostsoulsevents.com
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The title Have You Always Been Here? came from my partner, inspired by a heron we encountered on our walks. It's also a question that runs through the project itself: about attention, presence and what we fail to notice. New blog post. longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...
Tzu-Jan in Post-Nature: A Process | Matthew Clegg
History has lured me here – a lining of moss on a crumbling log. During Covid lockdowns my partner [i] and I started taking our daily exercise along Sheffield’s Rivelin valley early in the morning …
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Join us with @katenoakes.bsky.social and @bettergraces.bsky.social at Art & Talking in Chipping Norton on Sunday 6 Sep, 6–8pm! Open spots available. Entry is £10 (£5 concs) on the door. The art of Pato Bosich will be on the walls. zeroquality.net/art-and-talk... #poetry #oxfordshire #openmic
What do bog queens, white hills, Devon mud, and thin air have in common? They're all converging on Art and Talking, Chipping Norton's #1 haunt for art and poetry, this autumn. It's going to be cooler than summer! zeroquality.net/art-and-talk... @katenoakes.bsky.social @bettergraces.bsky.social
Why he no one heard about HOLD SPACE POETRY FESTIVAL? 7 nights during holy week 14 neurodivergent queer poets lived & worked in a crypt in London. sober. free. unfunded. hold space continues this summer in hackney wick. free entry. come as you are. www.outsavvy.com/event/35285/... #holdspace
Fascinating conversation between Nols Nathanski and Mikey Kirkpatrick about improvisation on the Make Poetry Weird Again podcast (00:29:58) Media file: feeds.alitu.com/74258409/9fb...
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Taupe sidelines | Adnate stem | Verdigris noodles | Petrichor chemicals | Mnemosyne and the nymph (what happens when I don't look up words in poems, @tearsinthefence.bsky.social #82)
It's that time of year, the elf on the elf shelf is chanting something, it's an Anglo-Saxon elf and you start moving, keep on moving till you find yourself in a place with pictures on the walls, Rachel Pantechnicon and Clare Mulley are saying things you half understand but it feels good...
Is this the death drive...an exhortation to exit the stage? Discover the Real. But then it says 'Ambush Reality'?
Guest poets for the next couple of months at Art & Talking in #chippingnorton #oxfordshire are: Sun 3 May, Martyn Crucefix & @rehema.bsky.social; Sun 7 June, Rachel Pantechnicon + guest TBA. All at 6–8pm. zeroquality.net/art-and-talk...
Robin Vaughan-Williams poetry events
Art & Talking poetry events by Robin Vaughan-Williams
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Free Verse poetry book fair 12-6.30pm this afternoon, Sat 25 Apr, St Columba's Church, London. I'll be there after 3pm. poetrysociety.org.uk/projects/fre...
Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair - The Poetry Society
The Poetry Society’s Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair celebrates the vitality of poetry in the UK – it’s an unrivalled opportunity to browse and buy the very best in contemporary poetry, and t...
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The picture of yourself that you post online is not the same as the person who's posting that picture online. In fact, it's usually that we feel hideous as embodied beings that we turn to Instagram in hopes of posting a better picture of ourselves and popping the "like" economy in our direction. 1/2
“Young people want to come together.... They want to meet up in real life." Exactly what we are running New Gen youth festival for in #Ealing. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘Young people want to come together’: experts respond to mass teen meet-ups in Clapham
Academics and youth workers say cuts to services and lack of public space help explain recent unrest in south London
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Our next #poetry event at Art & Talking is on Sun 12 Apr 4–6pm with David Clarke and Jane Lovell. That's 6 Middle Row, #ChippingNorton, OX7 5NH. £5 on the door. Limited open spots available (max 5 mins/2 poems)...DM if interested. zeroquality.net/art-and-talk...
Because words move...poetry & dance improv workshop with myself and choreographer Pepa Ubera coming up Friday 27 March at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham Common!
Join us at Art & Talking in #ChippingNorton on Sun 8 Mar with @mwhelanwrites.bsky.social & @zoebrooks.bsky.social for more words that make you feel something / or at least sound like they mean something. 4–6pm, £5 on the door. Bios at www.instagram.com/p/DVWFQrCiFXH/ #poetry #openmic
A short audio snippet from my Poetry Remix workshop on 13 February 2026...here Ernesto Sarezale and myself riffing off 'A Nocturnal Opera' by Eleanor Rees. This started taking a neurological turn, after the recording stopped. Next improv workshops: 6 & 27 March zeroquality.net/poetry-impro...
I'm collaborating with artist and choreographer Pepa Ubera on 27 March for a joint dance & poetry improv workshop exploring how the voice moves, how the body speaks. Details here: www.tickettailor.com/events/zeroq... #poetry #dance #improvisation #workshop
A few shots from October's workshop, where we were working with fragments of existing texts torn or screwed up as a score to riff off, with Martin Lau circulating among us on his flute. See here for upcoming workshops: www.tickettailor.com/events/zeroq... #poetryimprov
Poetry Remix, my next improv workshop, is coming up this Friday 13 Feb...and I will also be running a joint poetry-and-dance improv session called How the Voice Moves on 27 March with artist & choreographer Pepa Ubera. www.tickettailor.com/events/zeroq...
Planning my Poetry Improv Workshops. 13 Feb—Poetry Remix: how can we use existing texts as tools for improvisation? 6 Mar—Working the Space: how can we use the rehearsal space—its architectural features & objects within—as a source of ideas & interaction. www.tickettailor.com/events/zeroq...
Buy tickets – Collaborative Poetry Improvisation Workshops – Omnibus Theatre
Collaborative Poetry Improvisation Workshops – Omnibus Theatre, Multiple dates and times - Poetry improvisation is about trusting in your voice, opening up to others, and seeing where it takes you. In...
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Poetry improv workshops coming up this spring @omnibustheatre.bsky.social in London on 13 Feb and 6 March, 7.15pm. Full details at zeroquality.net/poetry-impro...
CHANGE IN PROGRAMME: We'll now be joined on 9 February by the wonderful @lauratheis.bsky.social who will be reading alongside @matriches.bsky.social and poets from the floor at Art & Talking #ChippingNorton.
Currently racing through Alphabet Diaries by #SheilaHeti. Every sentence has a double context: the one it may have been ripped from, and the new one in the book. Lots of poetic-feeling repetition. A decade collapsed into an alphabetical present.
I am very much looking forward to reading at Art and Talking in March. It’s a lovely venue run by dedicated lovers of the arts.
@robinrvw.bsky.social · 9mo agoSix extraordinary poets are landing at Art and Talking this spring to steer a course through the uncanny, the foolish, and the elemental: @matriches.bsky.social, Lorna Burchell, Maria Whelan, @zoebrooks.bsky.social, Jane Lovell, David Clarke Get yourself a seat and be part of the journey!
People of the Chipping Nortons (or surrounding areas). Are you free at these times? Can you be free at these tiimes...If yes to either then why not come along and hear some ace poets and read some of your own..9th of Feb looks good, but those other dates are filled with stars...
@robinrvw.bsky.social · 9mo agoSix extraordinary poets are landing at Art and Talking this spring to steer a course through the uncanny, the foolish, and the elemental: @matriches.bsky.social, Lorna Burchell, Maria Whelan, @zoebrooks.bsky.social, Jane Lovell, David Clarke Get yourself a seat and be part of the journey!
Six extraordinary poets are landing at Art and Talking this spring to steer a course through the uncanny, the foolish, and the elemental: @matriches.bsky.social, Lorna Burchell, Maria Whelan, @zoebrooks.bsky.social, Jane Lovell, David Clarke Get yourself a seat and be part of the journey!
I'm wondering if there are any awards for things like poetry in the public realm or community settings? We completed Poetry High Streets in Ealing last autumn and I'd like to see if we can put it forward for anything. ealingculture.org/poetry-high-... [Image by Alex Sturrock]
