Festival Appearances

Ilkley 2009

Blackpool 'Wordpool' Festival 2007

Farnham Festival of Words 2007

Scarborough Literature Festival 2007

Essex Book Festival 2007

Wigan & Leigh Words Festival 2006, 2007

Oldham Literature Festival May 2005

Lambeth Reader's and Writer's Festival 2005, 2006

Ilkey Literature Festival 2004, 2005

Off the Shelf - Sheffield Lit Fest 2004, 2005

Rotherham Arts Festival 2004

Bradford Book Festival/Refugee Week 2004

National Refugee Week York 2003, 2004

Ledbury Poetry Festival 1999, 2003

Manchester Poetry Festival 1997

Bradford Mela 1994

Commissions

The City Of Canturbury 'A Poem to be projected on the Wessex Gate'

Manchester Art Galleries - 'Six Poems based on Pilkington's Lancastrian Pottery'

Alchemy - 'Two Poems on Peace and Marriage'

Lancaster University 'Five poems looking at the real lives of migrants in the UK'

Blackpool 'A poem celebrating the people who live in the town, as a piece of public art'

BBC Radio 3 'A short play'

THE LOWRY 'Poems for the 2000 Commonwealth Games'

Arts Council of England & ACE NW

BBC Radio 4

BBC Manchester

Rainer Wigan

Salford University

HM Prison Service & Writers in Prison Network

Mid Pennine Arts

Commonword/BBC Manchester

START, Arts Council Of England, North West & Salford Hospital Trust

Bradford Heritage & Recording Unit

Irwell Sculpture Trail

A Word In Edgeways Theatre Company

M6 Theatre Company

Residencies

British Council Writer In Residence, Los Angeles 2009

Blackpool Poet In Residence 2008/9

Manchester City Art Gallery 2007/8

Buxton Schools 2007

Farnham Festival of Words 2007

Rainer Wigan 2005

Commonword/BBC Manchester as Poet in Residence 2005

Ilkley Literature Festival as Poet in Residence 2004

HMYOI Wetherby as Writer in Residence 2000 - 03

Ledbury Poetry Festival as Writer in Residence for Young People 2000 - 03

The LOWRY as Poet in residence 2000 - 01

Prestwich NHS Trust as Poet in Residence 2000