This page includes three poetry installations: ‘Making Moments Count’ at the Gulbenkian, Canterbury, The Herne Bay Festival 2024 ‘Here, Now’ and The Herne Bay Festival 2023 ‘Poetry In The Everyday’.

National Poetry Day, Oct 2024: Making Moments Count

This poetry installation, at the Gulbenkian Arts Centre in Canterbury, celebrates National Poetry Day.  The theme this year was counting and this installation invites you to make each moment count.  Whether that’s accepting the ‘knot of anxiety that wishes your day away passes’ and you continue to move forward, or living with loss and ‘bearing the unbearable’.  Each poem asks you to stop, take a moment and reflect on where you are right now. The installation is running until the end of October 2024.

Featured on BBC Radio Kent, I was interviewed by Dominic King and read one of my poems.

Herne Bay Festival 2023 & 2024

I received funding for two poetry installations as part of the Herne Bay Festival 2023 & 2024. Below are pictures from “Poetry In The Everyday” 2023 and the installation “Here, Now” 2024.

Here, Now.

Part of the Herne Bay Festival this poetry installation draws your attention to our temporary and fragile natures. It encourages you to focus on the present, hence the title “Here, Now.” The poems I’ve selected create evocative images of life be that they joy of the sea swimmers, or losing a shoe while running for a bus. This installation is also a public tribute to Dave Fudge.

Poetry In The Everyday.

This was a poetry installation that invites you to stop for a moment and find the everyday beauty in our local community. the idea behind this is to connect with the words in the poems, to notice if it influences you and how you see the space around you. The intention, in these poems, is to share something positive. For you to come across them and hopefully take something from them, perhaps even a little comfort in the beauty of the everyday and see the town we live in with fresh eyes.

This video showcases the poetry installation, Poetry In The Everyday, part of the Herne Bay Festival 2023.

The music composed by Dave Fudge, performed by Tea N Toast, called Waste The Day.