Margaret Adkins
Creative Writing Portfolio
Past Events
This & That, Here and There...
We're Just Ghosts in This House:
a presentation to members of W I Poolbrook, Malvern
We're Just Ghosts in This House
Thursday 20th April 2022
A talk to members of W I Poolbrook on my research into the Edwardian inhabitants of a specific road in Malvern and presenting snippets from my immersive audio performance, We're just Ghosts in This House.
A Tale of Two Cities II
Sunday 30th October 2022
With U.S. poet partner, Maura MacNeil at an online transatlantic
poetry reading, in part II of call and response poems between twenty poets
in pairs from Worcester, Worcestershire and Worcester, Massachusetts.
Project developed and curated by Nina Lewis.
Event hosted by Black Pear Press
Poems soon to be published by Black Pear Press.
ATOTC I online anthology available here: Contour - A Tale of Two Cities
Image Credit: Nina Lewis
The Opening of the Physic Garden
at The Poetry Pharmacy, Shropshire
Sunday 24th July 2022
Reading my poem, 'Prescribing the Pungent Root' from
The Physic Garden anthology, edited by Adam Horovitz (Palewell Press) at The Poetry Pharmacy.
Photo Credit: Deborah Alma
Community Living Room Project
in the Heart of the City
Thursday 9th June 2022
Reading for this Crave Arts project, which explores the question, 'What does home mean to you?' in an exhibition of poetry and visual art in a pop-up Living Room in Worcester.
Celebration of 'These Are the Hands'
Poetry Anthology
Friday 25th March 2022
Reading 'First Last Offices' at the Faculty of the History & Philosophy of Medicine & Pharmacy and The Bigger Picture celebration of the poetry anthology:
These Are the Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS
(Fair Acre Press) at The Apothecaries' Hall, Blackfriars Lane, London
'The very heart of who we are and what we are here for.' Michael Rosen
Photo credit: Deborah Alma
Jean Atkin's Book Launch
Sunday 6th March 2022
Reading at The Poetry Pharmacy, Shropshire
for Jean Atkins' launch of The Bicycles of Ice and Salt
with Kuli Kohli, Steve Griffiths, Thirza Clout and Gareth Culshaw, behind Jean Atkins.
Ledbury Poetry Salon
Friday October 4th 2019
Book Launch at Ledbury Poetry Salon, Ledbury Books & Maps
Home On The Move: Two Poems Go On A Journey (Parthian)
With Manuela Perteghella (ed) and fellow contributors:
Jacqui Rowe and Jim Dening.
'One of the most inventive and necessary poetry projects
of recent years...' Chris McCabe
Image: Shutterstock
Ledbury Poetry Festival
Sunday 14th July 2019
20 Minutes With...Margaret Adkins
The Master's House, Ledbury Poetry Festival
Reading from Mingled Space (V. Press)
Photo credit: Paul Adkins
