Events




Reading with Petr Hruška, Milan Děžinský,
and Jo Bratten
Monday, 23 October 2023, 6.45pm
Torriano Meeting House
99 Torriano Avenue, Kentish Town,
London NW5 2RX

London launch of Hollywood Home, with stablemates Lynn Hjelmgaard and Sue Hubbard, also launching their new collections.
Tuesday, 7 November 2023, 6.30pm for 7pm
St John’s Waterloo
73 Waterloo SE1 8TY

Hot Sauce & Hollywood with Kaycee Hill and Kathryn Gray
Thursday, 30th November 2023, 7pm
Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath
York Street, Bath, Somerset BA1 1NG

Book here.

First Thursday, South Wales
Thursday, 7 March 2024, 7.30pm
Carnegie House, Bridgend, CF31 1EF
Book here.


Kathryn Gray returns to announce the results of the 2024 Kent and Sussex Open Competition
Kathryn is the judge of our 2024 Open Poetry Competition. She will appear at the Royal Wells Hotel in Tunbridge Wells on Tuesday, 16 April at 8pm, to announce and introduce the seven prize winners. After their poems have been read – by the poets themselves if possible, either in the flesh or on Zoom – Kathryn will read from her own poetry. Details here.

Rainham Poetry Festival 2024: Poetry and Cinema with Kathryn Gray
Saturday, 1 June 2024, 2pm
St Margaret's Church, High Street, Rainham, Kent ME8 8AN

The Welsh-born, London-based poet will read from her latest collection Hollywood or Home in which she uses the ruthless glamour of Hollywood to project her poetical voice and deal with a series of topical issues.

The reading will be followed by a discussion about how the book came about, about specific poems and their relation to specific films or actors, and about a more general connection between poetry and cinema. Details of the two-day festival, which features a host of poets, including Dame Carol Ann Duffy, can be found here. Booking for the Poetry and Cinema event here.

St. Hugh’s, University of Oxford (Maplethorpe Hall): Patrick McGuinness, Jo Bratten,
Alice Stainer, Gareth Prior, Andrew Neilson and Kathryn Gray
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 5.15pm
St Margaret's Rd, Oxford OX2 6LE

For the Present: Celebrating Michael Donaghy
In association with The Poetry Society, a commemoration on the 20th anniversary of the poet Michael Donaghy’s death. Kindly supported by the T.S. Eliot Foundation.
Tuesday, 17 September 2024, 7.30pm
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Street London WC1R 4RL

Join us to celebrate the legacy of the great Michael Donaghy in an evening of poetry and music in association with The Poetry Society and kindly supported by the T. S. Eliot Foundation.

Featuring readings from Kayo Chingonyi, Ruairi Donaghy, Maura Dooley, Paul Farley, Kathryn Gray, Hannah Lowe, Andrew Neilson, Sean O’Brien, Don Paterson, and Greta Stoddart, and performances from Irish traditional musicians. Book here.

Four Poets Series: Simon Barraclough, Mary Noonan, John Mee, Lucy Ingrams, Kathryn Gray
Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 6.30pm for 7pm start
The Wheatsheaf, 25 Rathbone Place, London W1T 1JB

Oxford University: Michael Donaghy celebration: location and line-up TBC
Wednesday, 23 October 2024, time TBC