Formerly Poet in Residence at TATE; Royal Academy of Arts; John Murray; Keats-Shelley House; Naked Short Club; British School at Rome and most recently the American University of Rome. I am a Poet, dramaturgist, filmmaker and poetry tutor. 

My talks at the American University of Rome; Keats-Shelley House, Rome; Walker Art Gallery; Bradford Literary Festival; Ludlow Assembly Rooms; PwC; British School at Rome most recently at the Oxford Literary Festival with Dr Rowan Williams, all centre around my love of poetry. I was commissioned in 2022 by John Murray to make the first in a trilogy of short films about the Romantic poets: “Lift Me Up, I Am Dying” commemorating the death of John Keats and starring Damian Lewis, Nick Rowe and Christian Roe. The film, reviewed in the FT Arts section was streamed to 4000 viewers, on the night of his death, 23rd February 2023. John Murray commissioned my second, ‘Dreamboat’ filmed in Venice, commemorating the bicentenary of Shelley’s death. I am currently developing the third about Byron.

I created six theatrical perfomances while at the RA relating to the literary interests of the Academicians and great artists on show in the main galleries. My first, ‘Van Gogh and Poetry’ has also been performed at The Courtauld and Oxford Literature Festival.

In 2019 I was Invited by Eric Parry Architects and Qatari Diar to compose ‘Cento,’ a poem frieze for Chelsea Barracks Development carved from Portuguese limestone, the longest verse inscription in the west. 

My work has also been performed at: BAFTA; The Courtauld; Keats-Shelley House, Rome; John Murray; British School at Rome; Cheltenham Literature Festival; Todi Festival; Oxford Literary Festival; Bradford Literature Festival; Ledbury Poetry Festival and to the British Ambassador to Italy at the Villa Wolkonsky; 

Featured and reviewed in:  FT Arts; FT Travel; Sunday Times Magazine; Sunday Times Culture section; RA magazine; TATE; The Oldie; The London Magazine; The Shropshire Magazine; The Guardian and TATLER.