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2026

20 June 16.00
Queer Poetics of Trust
Artist talk at Billytown, The Hague

3 July
SPAM Press' 10-year anniversary party
Glasgow

16 July
"World Dreem II" Launch with Sincere Corkscrew
Glasgow

25 May
Pottenkijkers x DykeHouse Press present
"BloodSisters" (1996) - talk about the
"Leatherdyke Love Letters" zine
De Uitkijk, Amsterdam

16 May
Symposium Poetica
Perdu, Amsterdam

25 April
Like Minds
Typewronger Books, Edinburgh

19 April
Discount Guillotine Presents...
The House Arts Collective, Glasgow

24 March
"Leatherdyke Love Letters" launch
Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum, Amsterdam

6 March
"Leatherdyke Love Letters" launch
Category is Books, Glasgow

2025

"Letters of No" launch with Sleepy Press
San Serriffe, Amsterdam

"Electric Bodies" at Amsterdam Bangs Festival
OT301, Amsterdam

A.F.K.-Away From Keyboard #4
with SPAM Press
The Doublet, Glasgow

Dichters in de Prinsentuin
Groningen

"Soapbox 6.0: On the Uses of Absence" launch
De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam

SWEAT IT OUT
Badhus Sauna, Amsterdam

Female Rage
Labyrinth Poetry Bar, Amsterdam

Dichtersmarathon
Perdu, Amsterdam

2024

Love Language with Poetry Trapper Keeper
Labyrinth Poetry Bar, Amsterdam

love at the end of the world /
the world at the end of love
Plein Theater, Amsterdam

Poeting Queer History with Unwanted Words
Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam

Bookfringe:
SPAM Presents...
Typewronger Books, Edinburgh

2023

Amsterdam Women & Pride
Parool Theater, Amsterdam

2019-22

Hysteria
Spin, Aberdeen

URL SONATA: Brilliant Vibrating Interface #3 (2023)

In conversation with Ian Macartney for SPAM Press' podcast URL Sonata, about "The Queen of Cups and Other Poems" - on lockdown temporality, translation, "eco-queer grindsets", Aberdeen hauntology, cottagecore, nostalgia, Scottish community online and off, archive, utopia, tarot, and more.