Corran Halls | Oban
2026
2024
Of sea and sod: a generative writing workshop arising from the Arandora Star
3 hour multilingual workshop together with Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh.
This workshop will use a variety of tools and exercises inspired by the Arandora Star, an ocean liner that was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland in 1940. Participants will be given the opportunity to reflect and compose responses across a range of themes and genres, and languages. A stroll along the shoreline will provide us with material for the imagination. It is hoped that an anthology will be published featuring work from the workshop.
This event is free but booking is required at https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/of-sea-and-sod-a-generative-writing-workshop-arising-from-the-arandora-star/
University of St Andrews | Corner Room | Scottish Oceans Institute | St Andrews
Hebridean Healers: The Beatons of Mull
A voyage of discovery into the story of the Beatons of Pennycross – members of one of Scotland’s most significant medical families. The book explores the historical setting, the Beatons’ herbal treatments (many of which are still used) and the almost unbelievable survival of Gaelic manuscripts from their library. The site of their physic garden can still be seen today.
Talk together with Elizabeth Carter and launch of a short film about how the book came about by Alasdair Satchel.
Tobermory Book Festival | The Western Isles | Isle of Mull | Scotland
2023
Quavering Tongues – Teangannan air Crith
Dedicated to the area around our home in Knockvologan on the southwest tip of Mull, Quavering Tongues explores this natural environment as a culture-generating mesh of entanglements.
Through use of multiple disciplines and sensory techniques, we carefully tune into the delicate intricacies of land, sea and their inhabitants both past and present. In doing so, we try to reveal hidden motives that inspire speculative scenarios for a future where we acknowledge the complex and symbiotic relationships that exist between the natural world and us.
An Tobar | Tobermory | Mull
2022
John James Wild Seminar
Online Sci-Art panel about Algae as a precious material moderated by Prof Juliet Brodie from the Natural History Museum. With presentations by Anna Dumitriu, Alice Sharp (Invisible Dust), Jessica Gianotti (Crubag), Samuel Iliffe (Atelier Luma / Royal Academy of Arts) and Hugh Turvey (x-rayartist).
The event is organised by Sams | Oban | Scotland
2021
Translating and transposing seaweed
Online talk about The Seaweed Collector’s Handbook for the series Seaweed: Stories from the Intertidal Zone initiated by photographer and filmmaker Julia Parks.
2020
Magical Octopus
Online Magical Riso expert meeting – launch of the collaborative book Magical Octopus
Van Eyck | Maastricht
1-4 december
Who Inhabits the Wild – Pedestrians, Dreamers, the Lucky Ones?
On line Lecture during European Literature Days – More Wilderness!
With Fabio Andina from Lugano, me from Isle of Mull, Scotland and moderator Rosie Goldsmith from London
11:30 (Central European Time) Klangraum Minoritenkirche | Krems an der Donau | Austria
Animals & Plants
With Tijs Goldschmidt and Miek Zwamborn, about John Muir, Niko Tinbergen and D. Hillenius.
Rode Bioscoop | Amsterdam
Knockvologan Studies
Lecture and tutorials (together with Rutger Emmelkamp)
The Glasgow School of Art | Glasgow
2019
Poetry in Aldeburgh festival
11:30 TIME SONG: SEARCHING FOR DOGGERLAND. Lecture together with Julia Blackburn.
Jubilee Hall | Aldeburgh
14:00 THE SEA. THE SEA, THE SEAAAAAA, Dutch poetry on the shore, a walking and writing experience with Dutch Poets Hagar Peeters and Miek Zwamborn.
Why does the sea so appeal to the imagination? Hagar Peeters and Miek Zwamborn will perform and analyse poetry about the sea written from two opposite North Sea coastlines.
The Lookout | Aldeburgh
2018
Chasa Jaura
Lecture and performance based on my novel De duimsprong with Chasper Pult.
Chasa Jaura | Valchava | Val Müstair | Swiss
Knockvologan Observatory
Installation, lectures and guided walks during Into the great wide open festival
with Rutger Emmelkamp
Kampweg 1 | 8899 BX | Vlieland
A tourist in turbulent times
Stuart Cameron, author of A History of the Ross of Mull and John Keats in Mull, will talk about the poet’s walk across Mull in July 1818 – with readings from his lively letters and (of course) a few poems.
Seaweed in Teylers Museum
Booklaunch of Wieren and interview by Alexander Reeuwijk.
Spaarne 16 | 2011 CH | Haarlem
Here comes the summer
Festival Here comes the summer
Kampweg 1 | 8899 BX | Vlieland
Mullings
Launch of Mullings, cd with poets Shirley Blacoe, Derek Crook, Seth Crook, Alexandra James, Jan Sutch Pickard, Janet Schofield, Brian Thomas and Miek Zwamborn reading their own words.
Keel Row | Fionnphort | Ross of Mull
Salon de Pinto
with Daniël Rovers, Ton Zwerver, Ig Henneman and Ab Baars
St. Antoniesbreestraat 69 | 1011 HB | Amsterdam
2017
Oology
book launch Oology CNP III sold out
with Hans Mulder, Ylja Nieuwland, Bas Teunis, Jeroen van Westen, Jan de Hond, Ab Baars and Rutger Emmelkamp
Artis Library | Plantage Middenlaan 45-45A | 1018 DC | Amsterdam
Meeting the Aleph
with Roos van den Eerenbeemt, Jasper Coppes, Phil Baber and Rosa Johanna
Studio 167 Loods 6 | KNSM-Laan 167 | Amsterdam
Seaweed-NET book
Launch NETbook Seaweed and NETbook Beer with Aletta de Jong, Miek Zwamborn, Henriëtte Waal and workshop participants/NETbook contributers.
Design: Dongyoung Lee
Printroom | Schietbaanstraat 17 | 3014 ZV | Rotterdam
Unsettled Perceptions
Nederlands Film Festival
with Rutger Emmelkamp and Richard van Diessen
Utrecht
Poetry night
concert of the Scottish Ensemble and Ross of Mull Poets interventions
Bunessan Hall | Isle of Mull | Scotland
Alpinists e muntagnards. Stein und Sein
Casa d’Angel | Dado Baselgia 116 | CH-7148 Lumbrein | Swiss
Wir sehen uns am Ende der Welt
Reading from the translation of De duimsprong, with Chasper Pult.
Scuol | Hotel Belvédère | Swiss
Poetry evening
with Seth Crook and Brian Thomas
Historical Centre | Bunessan | Isle of Mull | Scotland
Wir sehen uns am Ende der Welt
Stadtbücherei Schlossmühle
Graf-Eberhard-Platz 10 | D-72574 | Bad Urach | Deutschland
An hour’s walk
ArtEZ Institute of the Arts | Arnhem
Wir sehen uns am Ende der Welt
Hochalpines Institut Ftan AG
Chalchera 154 | Ftan | Zwitserland
Wir sehen uns am Ende der Welt
Hotel Waldhaus
Sils-Maria | Swiss
2016
R A W
Magical Riso
Van Eyck | Maastricht
R A W | risoworkshop | Van Eyck Maastricht
Wir sehen uns am Ende der Welt
Bodmanhaus
Am Dorfplatz 1 | Gottlieben | Swiss
What if a counter proof makes any proof an illusion?
Book Launch with Antje Guenther
see: zie:http://www.tentrotterdam.nl/event/boekpresentatie-antje-guenther/
TENT | Witte de Withstraat 50 | 3012 BR Rotterdam
Wir sehen uns am Ende der Welt
Frauenfelder Bücherfest
Museum für Archäologie | Freiestrasse 24 | Frauenfeld | Swiss
Wir sehen uns am Ende der Welt
Literaturhaus |Deutsche Bibliothek Den Haag
Witte de Withstraat 31-33 | 2518 CP | Den Haag
Wir sehen uns am Ende der Welt
Theater am Leibnizplatz
Schulstrasse 26 | 29199 | Bremen | Germany
Sonnenalp Literaturtage
Sport- und Kurhotel Sonnenalp
Sonnenalp 1 | 87527 Ofterschwang | Germany
Wir sehen uns am Ende der Welt
Literaturhaus München
Reading with actress Wiebke Puls en interview with mountain specialist Dominik Prantl.
Salvatorplatz 1 | 80333 München | Germany
Open Studio’s Van Eyck
Reading the text I wrote for Antje Guenther, published in her beautiful book What if a counter proof makes any proof an illusion?
Van Eyck | Academieplein 1 | 6211 KM Maastricht
photo Michiel Ferrier
Sez Ner Trilogy
Lecture about the translation of Sez Ner Trilogy from the swiss writer Arno Camenisch.
Goethe Institut | deSingel | Desguinlei 25 | Antwerpen
2015
Wir sehen uns am Ende der Welt
Dutch embassy in Berlin
Multimediafestival BERGBUCHBRIG
Reading from Wir sehen uns am Ende der Welt (De duimsprong translated by door Bettina Bach) during the mountain literature festival BergbuchBrig in Brig, Swiss
Fact and Fiction
What is the role of fact and fiction in writing on art? What are facts when dealing with art? How can fiction be applied in writing on art? Is there a limit?
KABK | Den Haag
Fact and fiction I
What is the role of fact and fiction in writing on art? What are facts when dealing with art? How can fiction be applied in writing on art? Is there a limit?
KABK | Den Haag
Brainwashfestival
talk about art and science with Trudy DeHue and Hanne Hagenaars
Frascatie | Amsterdam
Tamed Heaven – finissage
Gemeentemuseum | Den Haag
The End of Sitting 1:1
De Akademie van Kunsten | Looiersgracht 60 | Amsterdam
with Barbara Visser, Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen and RAAAF
Getemde hemel – opening
Gemeentemuseum | Den Haag
Dichtersmarathon
Perdu | Amsterdam
opening City Hotels
Arcam | Prins Hendrikkade 600 | 1011 VX Amsterdam
2014
More than double glazing (vanuit Zwitserland)
met Yeb Wiersma
Het nieuwe instituut | Rotterdam
The tree circus
De duimsprong
De halve wereld | Amsterdam
Selective Memory
Lewis Glucksman Gallery | Cork | Ireland
Ken je buren
boekhandel De Zondvloed | Mechelen
boekhandel Boekarest | Leuven
met Bernard Dewulf, Ann Meskens, Joke Hermsen, Neske Beks en Els Moors
Ken je buren
boekhandel Theoria Kortrijk | Kortrijk
met Bernard Dewulf, Ann Meskens, Joke Hermsen, Neske Beks en Els Moors
Ken je buren
Boekenbeurs | Antwerpen
met Bernard Dewulf, Ann Meskens, K. Schippers, Neske Beks en Els Moors
Ken je buren
Boekhandel Roelants | Nijmegen
met Bernard Dewulf, Ann Meskens, K. Schippers, Neske Beks en Els Moors
De duimsprong
Schrijvers in de huiskamer | Lelystad
Vertalen versus schrijven
NGTV Regionale Kring Den Haag
Commissarissenzaal van het Nutshuis | Den Haag