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

I have given talks at 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. In 2022 I was commissioned by John Murray to make the first in a trilogy of short films about the romantic poets, “Lift Me Up, I Am Dying” commemorates the death of John Keats and stars Damian Lewis, Nick Rowe and Christian Roe. The film was reviewed in the FT Arts section and 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. 

While Poet in Residence at the RA I created six theatrical perfomances relating to the literary interests of the great artists shown in the main galleries. ‘Van Gogh and Poetry’ has also been performed at The Courtauld and Oxford Literature Festival.

In 2019 I was Invited 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 and to the British Ambassador to Italy at the Villa Wolkonsky; Ledbury Poetry Festival.

Reviews and features;  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.