Photo by Lancia Smith
GK Chesterton famously sent a telegram to his wife saying. ‘AM IN MARKET HARBOROUGH. WHERE SHOULD I BE?’
I empathise with both GKC and the long-suffering Frances as I too am often muddled, befuddled, and as like as not double-booked, when I come to look at my diary. In an attempt to straighten things out I have just gone through my commitments, as far as I can remember them, for the next year, and have discovered that I am indeed in Market Harborough in June, and in between, and beyond in all kinds of places on both sides of the Atlantic. I would be delighted to see, and to meet up with readers of this blog at any (or all) of the events/readings/retreats which I have discovered (sometimes to my great surprise) in my diary. so here they all are, as far as I know them, do join me at one or two of them if you can.
Here is a list of my forthcoming events including gigs, poetry readings, conference talks and retreats, as far as I know them, from May 2014-March 2015, more to be added soon
May 24th: I will be leading, and speaking at the annual Little Gidding Pilgrimage. Details will appear on the Friends of LG Events Page
May 30-th to June 1st: I will be reading at the Bloxham Literary Festival
June 6th: Charity Gig with Mystery Train at The Manor Barn Harlton 8pm
June 18th I will be doing a poetry reading as part of a Quartet of Poets at Girton College FDR 8pm All Welcome
June 28th ‘Songs and Sonnets’ at Market Harborough Methodist Church from 2:30pm
July 22nd-25th: I will be a speaker and resident poet at Kindlingsfest on Orcas Island
July 28th-31st: I will be speaking at the CS Lewis Foundation’s Oxbridge conference, here in Cambridge
August 13-15th I will be a plenary speaker at the George MacDonald and the Victorian roots of Modern Fantasy conference in Oxford
September 1st-25th I will be Artist in Residence at Duke Divinity School, Duke University North Carolina. This residency will include A Public Reading, a Public Lecture and a concert in the Sean’s Singer-Songwriter series -more details to follow.
October 1st-November 20th: I will be a visiting fellow at St. John College Durham and will be doing various readings and lectures, at the College and the Cathedral more details to follow.
October 23-26th I will be leading an artists’ retreat at Laity Lodge in Texas, details here
December 12-14th I will be leading an Advent Retreat at Launde Abbey all welcome
March 14th 2015: I lead a day of prayer at Westminster Abbey, titled ‘Read Poems as Prayers’; praying through the poetry of George Herbert and Seamus Heaney’
March 23rd-27th: I will be ‘Visionary in Residence’ at Biola University Centre for Christianity culture and the Arts in Los Angeles. this residency will include poetry readings, performances and workshops, a concert with Steve Bell and a public lecture on Faith and the Arts. More details to follow.
nice post, busy but always welcoming! good luck with it all Malcolm
Thanks, I just hope it can all fit in around the usual college and church things. though Luckily I am on sabbatical from both those jobs sept-dec!
Good luck with all the events there! If you’re in India some time, I would love to introduce you to some lovely poets here 🙂
I wish I could attend that last one with you and Steve Bell! Peace and blessings to you Malcolm as you bless others through these events.
Diana
Lovely update, Malcolm! And happily for me I think I will be at 3 of those events. 🙂 Peter and I will be praying for you in all those places of being and giving for you.
Thanks Lancia, I asked TCS to acknowledge your fabulous photo which they did in the print version but not online. I have not forgotten our Singing bowl interview and when I finally come to the other end of the long St. edwards emergency (nearly there!) I shall return to it!
We’re hoping for Kindlingfest and, ardent groupies that we are, will hopefully be at Biola for all that you bring. Eastertide blessing to you, Maggie and kids.
Thanks Pat, hope to see you at some of these!
It looks like you have some free time in the middle of July to take your wife on a little holiday to Normandy where I will be for a few days. I am from AB, Canada, and none of these sites are otherwise particularly close for me!