events & more

My latest collaboration, with Jem Henderson and Erica Gillingham, a sort of sequel to GenderFux, also published by Nine Pens Press, it out on 12th May.

We are holding a launch on 16th May at Soho Poly Theatre with three wonderful guest readers: Rona Luo, Deborah Finding and Jennifer Wong. More information about them, the book, and the event can be found here. Tickets are free but must be booked in advance!

For those who can’t make it in person, there’s also an online launch on publication day – Sunday 12th May. Free tickets available here.

Joy // Us Book Launches

There are several joyful launches and readings coming up over the next two months to celebrate the wonderful anthology from Arachne Press Joy // Us Poems of Queer Joy I am lucky to be reading at several of them, including:

Online launch on The International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) on 17th May. Details and free tickets available here.

Live launch in London at Roundtable Books in Brixton on Thursday 23rd May, and in Brighton at The Queery on Friday 24th May, tickets here.

And a Special Edition at the National Poetry Library on 5th June, more info and tickets here.

Book launch for Derek Jarman

I’m thrilled to be supporting the launch of Simon Maddrell‘s book ‘a finger in Derek Jarman’s mouth‘ on Tuesday 20th February at Queercircle in Greenwich. Tickets are free, but must be booked in advance. The book is available to pre-order now from Polari Press.

Fragments Book Launch!

With the re-publication of my first pamphlet Fragments from Before the Fall by Sunday Mornings at the River, I’m delighted to have the opportunity for a live launch in the UK. This will be held at my local Library for Change, run by Transition Leytonstone, where I’m honoured to be joined by the fantastic poets Meryl Pugh, Michael McKimm, and Jo Morris Dixon. Tickets are free, but do book as space is limited.

Queer Joy Workshop

I’m thrilled to be running another online workshop with Crow Collective, on Sunday 11th November at 3pm GMT. Entitled Not Just Coming Out: Writing Our Queer Joy this will be a fun, experimental, intimate and playful workshop exploring how best to share these experiences on the page. More information and how to book here: https://crowcollectiveworkshops.com/2021/11/11/lgbtqia/

Vanguard Editions‘ highly regarded annual anthology of poems that are all 14 lines long launches at the Margate Bookie Festival on Sunday 22nd October. I’m delighted to be reading at this event. Tickets are available from www.margatebookie.com/anthology-launch

I’m delighted to have a poem in the forthcoming Arachne Press publication Menopause : The Anthology which will be released on Menopause Day on 18th October. There are a number of events around the country to celebrate this brilliant and important book. I’m involved in a few of them, details of how to attend coming soon.

October 14th 5pm @ Round Table Books in Brixton, South London

I will be performing alongside the brilliant Leilah King at the next She Grrowls event at Catford Mews on Thursday 12th October.

Tickets available here! https://catford-mews.co.uk/whats-on/she-grrrowls/

I will be reading on Monday 2nd October at 7pm GMT, along with the brilliant Mims Sully, in support of the launch (and rebirth!) of Nikki Dudley’s wonderful book Just One More Before I Go published by Sídhe Press on 15th September. This is a brilliantly innovative, important and heartfelt piece of work exploring the impact of dementia on the self and wider family.

This is an online event, and free to attend. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.

Traum/A Launch!

Traum/A will be launched online on Thursday 18th May 2023, ticket are free and available via Eventbrite.

I will be reading selections from the chapbook and joined by four brilliant writers and poets: Leia Butler, Stuart McPherson, Raegen Pietrucha and nat raum. Come and join us!

Meet the Poet

I feature on Sidhe Press’ Meet the Poet series, which includes three extracts from my forthcoming hybrid chapbook Traum/A.

Foodbank Fundraiser

I am part of the Forest Poets Poem-A-Thon fundraising event on Saturday 11th February, raising money for the Walthamstow foodbanks Eat or Heat and the Rukhsana Khan Foundation. It promises to be a fantastic day with 50 poets signed up to read!

If you can’t make it on the day, you can still donate from now until the end of February. More information here: https://www.peoplesfundraising.com/fundraising/jpseabright

I will be doing a headline set at Incite’s LGBT+ spoken word cabaret on Wednesday 21st of September at 7pm on Zoom (GMT/UTC+1) Free to listen in or join the open mic, more details on their Facebook page.

And on Monday 26th September at 7.30pm (BST) myself Jem Henderson & Jonathan Kinsman will be performing work from our collaborative pamphlet GenderFux at Rebel Riot Poetry. More details and to sign up here.

I will be delivering an online workshop for the Crow Collective on Sunday 11th September on erasure, blackout and cut-up poetry techniques. Sign up or see here for more details: https://crowcollectiveworkshops.com/2022/02/01/poetry/

I had the great joy and honour to be interviewed by A.G. Parker for their podcast Cabinet of Curiosities which focuses on queer disabled creatives. It is available to listen on Spotify, Apple, Podbean and others. Links below:

I have several readings coming up in September, most online. More details including links to listen in, will be posted once available:

Saturday 3rd September : Fahmidan Journal

Wednesday 21st September : Incite! LGBT Headliner

Monday 26th September : Rebel Riot Poets – Headliner

Wednesday 28th September : Southwark Libraries Poetic Map of Reading event (in person)

Exciting news! I will be Poet in Residence at the fabulous gender-neutral barbers in Hackney, East London, Barberette. This small, but important community space celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2022, and I will be writing a series of poems about and inspired by their work, their clients and their staff.

If you happen to be a customer of Barberette, past or present, please get in touch as I’d love to talk to you!

GenderFux, a queer transmasculine poetry pamphlet, written in collaboration with Jem Henderson and Jonathan Kinsman and published by Nine Pens Press, had its live London launch on Tuesday 24th May!

You can now view readings from all three poets at the launch on YouTube. Huge thanks to Chloe Proctor for taking this video and allowing us to share it.

No Holds Barred had its online launch on 23rd April, along with the other four authors from Lupercalia Press’ first chapbook series.

You can now view an extract of this event, of my reading from No Holds Barred on YouTube.

I will be delivering a workshop for Full House Literary Magazine on Monday 7th March 19.30 GMT on Erasure, Blackout & Cut-Up Eco-Poetry. Free to attend!

Sign up here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/workshops-prompts

I will be reading my third-prize-winning poem from the Forest Poets competition at this free online event. Monday 14th March 20.00 GMT Register here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waltham-forest-poetry-competition-showcase-zoom-tickets-262022104167

As part of the promotion for the Out On The Page chapbook Queer Writing for a Brave New World, which features my poem Three Word Slogan, I was invited to give a reading and talk about the inspirations for this piece.

I was delighted to be a guest on The Arts Programme at Phoenix FM for their Everyday Pride show on Sunday 12th June, where I talked about coming out, creative writing and inspiration, and read work from GenderFux and Fragments.

You can listen to the show here.

I was fortunate to be chosen as Writer of the Month in March this year by Elizabeth M. Castillo, the write, poet and indie press promoter. In our interview, you can read about my inspiration for the poem 1994 and watch my reading.

My interview with the writer Nikki Dudley about my writing process and the inspiration behind Fragments from Before the Fall.

Read my short interview with Fevers of the Mind magazine.

I was invited to talk about the inspiration behind and process of creating Fragments from Before the Fall on the Full House podcast, broadcast on Sunday 12th December.

It can be listened to for free here, and in multiple other Podcast platforms. A full transcript is also available from this site.

The online launch of Fragments from Before the Fall was on Friday 10th December 2021.

Hosted by the publisher and founder of Beir Bua Press, Michelle Moloney King, it featured several authors from recent BBP publications.

It can be viewed for free on YouTube.

My poem Weather from Fragments from Before the Fall is read beautifully in this podcast of poetry on the theme of Fire.

The blue door to the cosmos is worth listening to every week and can be found here.

Several poems from Fragments from Before the Fall feature in this episode of the brilliant poetry podcast Eat the Storms, hosted and produced by Damien B. Donnelly.

Episode 2, Season 4: JP Seabright, Özge Lena, Shiksha Dhera, Brad Beau Cohen and Samantha L. Terrell

I recorded a reading of my poem Spilt Milk for the Royal Society of Literature as part of their Write Across London project showcasing poems written during or about the pandemic.

The poem is on their website here.

I read a selection of poems at the Punk Noir Magazine online event: Punk Noir @ the Bar on June 19, 2021. The recording can be watched in its entirety for free here. (I appear about 28 minutes in)

Image copyright Tia Ja’nae @articul8madness

I was interviewed as part of the avant-garde Irish journal Beir Bua‘s series of contemporary experimental writers.

I was interviewed by Nikki Dudley, writer, facilitator of the MumWrite Programme and Co-founder and Managing Editor of Streetcake Experimental Writing Magazine

I talk here about the inspiration for my poem Reveal-Redact in the Full House Literary Podcast

Since summer 2018 I have written a regular blog on music. Specifically, on every single album in my record collection – chosen randomly through the natural beauty of atmospheric noise via random.org

“RANDOM.ORG uses radio receivers to pick up atmospheric noise, which is then used to generate random numbers. The radios are tuned between stations.”

If this sounds like your thing, you can read the RandomRecordReview blog here, amuse yourself with my poorly-taken photographs of well-loved LPs on Instagram, and listen to selected tracks from each randomly picked album via the Spotify Playlist below.