FILM & AUDIO

You can find my recordings of several of my poems on The Poetry Archive.

I enjoyed talking to the UK’s D.H. Lawrence Society, focusing on Lawrence’s travels, his ‘savage pilgrimage’ and nature poetry from that time. I also read some of my poems from A Whistling of Birds which are inked to Lawrence and his iconic collection Birds, Beasts and Flowers. You can watch the video of the Zoom talk here.

Some TV news: I was delighted to contribute to a documentary produced by Ian Michael Jones and presented by Owen Sheers about David Jones's great World War I poem In Parenthesis (BBC iPlayer availability has expired but clips are available).

A clip of my reading of 'Late Knowledge' in memory of The Cradock Four, for Bloodaxe's Hwaet! anthology launch at Ledbury Poetry Festival, celebrating poems from 20 years of the festival, July 2016.
A note of apology and a correction: I realise I made an error in how I introduced my reading of this poem ‘Late Knowledge’, in memory of the Cradock Four – Matthew Goniwe, Fort Calata, Sparrow Mkhonto, and Sicelo Mhlauli. Since my father is no longer alive, I can’t be sure and can’t check the details, but I think the funeral my father may have attended was Robert Sobukwe’s in Umasizakhe, Graaff-Reinet, in March 1978, and not Matthew Goniwe’s in Lingelihle, Cradock in July 1985. In thinking back to a conversation with my father about these two extraordinary and courageous men, Robert Sobukwe and Matthew Goniwe, both teachers who took up the struggle against apartheid, I conflated something my father said about the two funerals in my somewhat nervous introduction.

Much Ado About Marnie, as part of Camarade III, at the Nova Festival. Hitchcock at hilariously waterlogged British summer festival ... watch for the worm finale...

 Reading 'Plenty', at the Poetry Parnassus Salt Celebration, Southbank, London, 30 June 2012

Julian Sands on BBC Radio 4 and audio of 'Toktokkie' and 'valentine' at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, August 2011.

Women for Women International's Women's Day reading: Join Me on the Bridge, March 2011.

'Truths & Reconciliations' and a clip from Nelson Mandela Day at the British Museum, 18 July 2010.

Reading 'The Buried Butterfly' at Oxfam, Marylebone High Street, Manhattan Review launch, March 2009.