Events

Martina Evans in conversation with Dorothy Allen
Irish Cultural Centre
Hammersmith
Thursday May 25th at 7PM

L A M E N T: A One-Day Celebration of the Tradition of Irish Keen: Paul Muldoon • Angela Bourke • Fran Lock • Martina Evans • Mícheál McCann • Vona Groarke• Irene Buckley • and More! May 3rd, 2023    10:00 – 19:30
Cripps Auditorium, Magdalene College, Cambridge University

Poetry, Prose and Drama performed by LWE Writers
With Special Guest: Martina Evans
Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith
Fri 09 December 2022  7:00pm – 9:00pm

THE IRISH PROUST
Museum of Literature Ireland
Saturday, October 29th, 2 p.m.
Proust and Contemporary Irish Literary Practice: James Ryan, Carlo Gebler, Darragh McCausland & Martina Evans

POETRY AT THE LEXICON
Dún Laoghaire October 10th
2022 8pm 
Moniza Alvi, Hannah Hodgson
Martina Evans in Conversation With
with Rosamund Taylor

Women. Poetry. Translation. A conversation.
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Martina Evans
with Zita Kārkla
The National Library of Latvia, Level 11
 29 September 2022, at 5.30pm 

Micheal Longley and Martina Evans
Station House Theatre


Poetry reading at Montclair State University
Feliciano 015, 11 a.m. April 6th 2022

LANCASTER LIT FEST POETRY DAY
Hannah Hodgeson & Martina Evans, March 19 at 2p.m.
The Storey London Meeting House Lane, LA1 1TH 

StAnza Poetry Festival 2022, St Andrews
David Constantine, Parwana Fayyaz & Martina Evans
NATURAL BORN STORYTELLERS MARCH 13TH 2022

 

Poetry in the park: Saturday 22 January 2022 3pm

A celebratory evening of poetry reading in Morden Hall Park (London) with Yogesh Patel and Tristram Fane Saunders. 

LONDON REVIEW BOOKSHOP: John Clegg and Jess McKinney launch their new Hazel Press poetry collections with reading and conversation with Martina EvansThursday, 28 October 2021 7pm

 

The Amergin Solstice Poetry Gathering Éigse na Greine – Celebrating contemporary Irish Poetry where Irish Poetry first came ashore:

Friday 29th September 2021 8.00 pm   Crossing the Pond – readings by Mark Roper, Martina Evans, John W. Sexton.

 

ReadFest: International Storytelling with Lucy Popescu, Claire Adam, Martina Evans and Siya Turabi September 17th, 2021, 6.30 p.m. 

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LEDBURY POETRY FESTIVAL JULY 2020

MONDAY JULY 5TH 10 am. : NOTORIOUS — A Poetry Workshop with Martina Evans

Monday 5 July at 8pm: Billy Collins and Martina Evans, hosted by Jonathan Edwards

 

LEWES LIVE LITERATURE – Tues 29 June, 7.45pm


NEW POETRY: MARTINA EVANS / SONYA SMITH:
All Saints Centre, Lewes, June 29th, 7.45 p.m.

 

CORK INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL
MARTINA WITH SARAH BERKELEY TOLCHIN
MAY 13TH 2021 9 P.M.
Details HERE.

 

West Cork Literary Festival
Aoife Lyall, Victoria Kennefick
& Martina in conversation with
Séan Hewitt and John McAuliffe
from the Unlaunched Books podcast
to mark Poetry Day Ireland.
Thursday 29 April 2021 7:00 pm
Details HERE.

AMERICAN MULES LAUNCH
CARCANET IN ASSOCIATION WITH
THE IRISH EMBASSY IN LONDON hosts
MARTINA IN CONVERSATION WITH
THOMAS MCCARTHY
APRIL 21ST at 7 p.m.
register here

 

 

 

MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA LITERARY FESTIVAL
A sense of place: Two Poets
JOHN MCAULIFFE & MARTINA EVANS
IN CONVERSATION WITH MAUREEN KENNEALLY
MARCH 27TH, 4 P.M. 2021

 

NEW WORDS FESTIVAL BY OLDHAM LIBRARIES
Martina in Discussion with Michael Schmidt
founder of Carcanet Press, March 8th 2021

Poetry Reading as past of AT HOME AT THE FARM EXHIBITION by painter MARY BURKE 
Limerick City Gallery
FRIDAY 26TH FEBRUARY – SUNDAY 2ND MAY

 

 

DAYS OF CLEAR LIGHT

MARKING 40 YEARS OF SALMON POETRY
WITH NESSA O’MAHONY, JESSIE LENDENNIE, EILÉAN NÍ CHUILLEANÁIN,
JANE CLARKE, GERALD DAWE
& MARTINA EVANS
IRISH LITERARY SOCIETY
FEBRUARY 1ST 2021

 

The 2021 St Brigid’s Day Festival, 31st January 
IRISH EMBASSY LONDON WITH JOY CROOKES,
JULIE ETCHINGHAM, FEARS, AISLING LOGAN, SINÉAD O’BRIEN, LOUISE RICHARDSON

 

POETRY IN THE PUB
with Jackie Wills &
Catherine Smith,
The Royal Oak,
Lewes — Tuesday 7.45pm
November 26th 2019

IRISH LITERARY SOCIETY
ANNUAL YEATS LECTURE
IRISH EMBASSY LONDON
NOVEMBER 20 2019, 6PM
more details HERE 

 

11th Annual PoetryFest
Irish Arts Center
553 West 51st Street
New York, NY 10019
Martina reading with Tina Chang
Saturday November 2nd 5PM

 

Carcanet at 50: Poetry Ireland
11 Parnell Square East
Dublin
Ireland
D01 ND60
Friday 25 Oct 2019, 13:00 to 22:00

 

 

 

Poetry Reading Highgate Library 
Jehane Markham, Linda Black
and Martina Evans
7pm Thursday 10 October
Chester Road London N19 5DH
020 7974 4444

Ilkley Literature Festival
Sunday October 6th
Irish Poetry Showcase
with Alan Gillis &Conor
O’Callaghan at the
Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside
5.15–6.15pm £8/5* concession

Slouching towards Bethlehem:
WB Yeats and The Second Coming
with Colette Bryce, John McAuliffe
and Alan Gillis
Ilkley Playhouse Wildman
7.45–8.45pm £8/5* concessions

 

Reading with Tim Cumming
at the launch of his new
collection Knuckle at
The Music Room 
49 Great Ormond Street
London WC1N AHZ

Thursday July 11th 7.30PM

 

STINGING FLY SUMMER SCHOOL
THE WRITER’S CENTRE
Dublin July 1-5 2019
Full DETAILS HERE

 

“What We Should Have Said” 
Martina with 
Aoife Mannix
Richard Douglas Pennant
Stuart Silver & Helen Moore
27th June 2019, 7.30 p.m.
The Swan Hotel,
Bradford on Avon,
Wiltshire BA15 1LN

 

London Irish Writers Summer School
London Metropolitan University, June 13th 2018
at 6.30 P.M.

 

 

Listowel Writers Week
Piggott Poetry Prize Reading
Thursday May 30th at 11 a.m.
Plaza Centre, Listowel.

 

What We Should Have Said
at The Troubadour with Stuart Silver, Pat Boran
Richard Douglas Pennant, A.F. Harrold & pianist
Peter Foggitt – Monday May 27 8pm.

 

Irish Cultural Centre
Hammersmith, May 8, 7pm
Martina in conversation
with journalist Dorothy Allen.
More details HERE.

Strokestown Festival 2019
Martina reading on Friday 3rd May
7.30pm at the Percy French Hotel
more details HERE

 

 

Mountains to the Sea
dlr Book Festival reading with Rosemary Jenkinson
Saturday March 30th 10.30a.m.
dlr Lexicon Lab, Level 3
More Details HERE

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2018 RACK PRESS READING MARCH 1ST 2018 ART WORKERS’ GUILD

 

Imagining Ireland, 

 

Elaine Feinstein at the Shuffle,
with friends – Fleur Adcock
and Martina Evans
Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden
London, 19.30-21.30
24 November 2018

 

MONTCLAIR UNIVERSITY
NEW JERSEY
Feliciano School of Business, Room 015
Thursday, October 25 2018
1 to 2:15 p.m.

 

A POETRY EVENING AT CORRIGANS MAYFAIR with Patrick Bergin, Bríd Brennan, Niall Buggy, Adrian Dunbar, Bob Geldof, Bernard O’Donoghue, Shevaun Wilder  7pm, Sunday
October 21 2018

 

WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE SAID
Peter Foggit on piano,  reading with
Carrie Etter,Richard Douglas Pennant
Stuart Silver, Merton College, Oxford
8pm October 19th 2018

 

MILTON KEYNES LIT FEST
with Keith Jarrett
Sunday September 23 2018

 

 

CULTURE NIGHT –
“Gold Air and the Blue”
with Moya Cannon,
& Doireann Ní Ghríofa
in the Seanad Chamber 4PM
Dublin, September 21 2018
more details HERE

SHORELINES ARTS FESTIVAL LITERARY LUNCH Margaret Hickey, Doireann Ní Ghríofa with Martina Evans

GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 

MEMORIES OF HOME

TALKING AND READING WITH RITA ANN
HIGGINS, VONA GROARKE, PAULA MEEHAN
CHAIR: MAUREEN KENNELLY
SUNDAY 22 July, 2:30pm

 

WEST CORK LITERARY FESTIVAL
Bantry, West Cork,
Cork County, Ireland
Fire Walk With Me Workshop
Monday 16 – Friday 20 July 2018

Wednesday 18th July Martina in conversation
with Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh 2.30pm The Maritime Hotel

 

POETRY REVIEW SUMMER LAUNCH READING
Wednesday July 11 6.30pm

Stinging Fly Summer School
Irish Writers Centre

THE LONELY CROWD  LONDON READING
Thursday June 30th

 

 Launch at Poetry Ireland
11 Parnell Square, Dublin 1
Now We Can Talk Openly About Men
Martina in conversation with
Catriona Crowe, May 31st, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE LONELY CROWD LAUNCH
Cardiff, May 10th  2018
Martina reading with Kate North,
Anne-Marie Young, Gareth E Rees,
John Freeman at Little Man Coffee
Bridge Street at 7pm

 

 

 

 

A novel affair – Irish writers night at the ICC Hammersmith, March 15th 2018 7pm

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  ST BRIGID’S DAY/Lá Fhéile Bríde 2018
THE IRISH EMBASSY, LONDON
MARTINA READING POEMS 
WITH VONA GROARKE AND TARA BERGIN

17 Grosvenor Pl,
Belgravia,
London SW1X 7HR
FEBRUARY 1ST 2018 6.30pm

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MARTINA READING POEMS
WITH LONDON WRITERS’ ECLECTIVE
WATERSTONES TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD
FRIDAY JANUARY 26 2018 18.30 – 20.30 p.m.

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Martina is Featured Reader at
THE OVER THE EDGE READING
Galway City Library
January 18th 2018 6.30-8pm 

 

PENTAMETERS THEATRE HAMPSTEAD
MONDAY OCTOBER 16TH

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DETAILS TO FOLLOW

 

DROMINEER LITERARY FESTIVAL, COUNTY TIPPERARY

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OCTOBER 6-8TH 2017

Martina reading and in discussion – FOR MORE DETAILS

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THE IRISH CULTURAL CENTRE, Hammersmith

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Musician J Eoin with Martina reading 

Thursday June 22nd 2017 at 7pm  

 

WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE SAID

Stuart Silver            

With Liz Berry, Martina Evans,
Richard Douglas Pennant,
Stuart Silver and Marios Takoushis
SALISBURY ARTS FESTIVAL 
JUNE 7TH 2017

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of Literature, Galway
Martina with
Mary O’Malley, April 26th 8.30PM
Town Hall Theatre
more info here

 

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MARTINA READING WITH
Wioletta Greg, Meike Ziervogel
and Xiaolu Guo 
WATERSTONES PICCADILLY
7 pm 8th March 2017 

 

 

EnfieldMartina at Enfield Poets
Dugdale Centre Enfield Town 
Saturday March 4th 7.30pm

More info here

 

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Martina with Hannah Lowe
Saturday afternoon February 18th 2017
Saturday Morning Four Masters Workshop
MORE INFO HERE 

 

TroubadourLOUIS JENKINS, LUKE KENNARD
& MARTINA EVANS With
MARIUS TAKOUSHIS &
STUART SILVER
Monday November 28th
The Troubadour Coffeehouse

49 Great Ormond StreetTim Cumming & Martina Evans at The Music Room 
49 Great Ormond Street London WC1N AHZ
MONDAY OCTOBER 17TH AT 7.30PM 
WINE AND POETRY

 

 

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Reading at The Square Pig 

John Clegg and Karen McCarthy-Woolf
and Martina, September 17th 2016 8pm  

Charlie Byrnes BookshopGALWAY LAUNCH  THE WINDOWS OF GRACELAND Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop
Cornstore Mall,
Middle Street,
Galway,
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1st July 2016 6.30pm
Further details 

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CEAD WEEKEND OF IRISH ARTS

Propaganda or Poetry 

Martina reading and discussing 
with Ruth Dudley Edwards, Dave Lordan
and Gerard Smith at 
London Irish Centre,
Murray Street
Camden
JUNE 24TH 7.30 for 8PM  – details click here

Waterstones TCR 1_0CITY LIT TALKS BACK 
Waterstones
19-21 Tottenham Court Rd,
London W1T 1BJ
Thursday June 9th 7.30pm
More details  

 

 

THE WINDOWS OF GRACELAND

Martina Evans LaunchLONDON LAUNCH

The Keynes Library
Birkbeck School of Arts
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H OPD

Tuesday 31st May  6.30pm

Far from lITRoisin Dubh, in association with Cúirt International Festival
of Literature and Galway Rape Crisis Centre

Martina joins an array of literary, comedic and musical talent performing across three stages. 
More details here

 

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 Martina with Niall Griffiths,
Jon McGregor and Lisa McInerney
A Stinging Fly reading
The Project Arts Centre
Temple Bar
8.15pm April 16th 2016 

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A Stinging Fly Event
Martina in panel discussions with 
other contributors from the
After the Rising Issue of The Stinging Fly 
The Project Arts Centre
Temple Bar
Dublin 
2pm April 16th 2016 
more info here

 

St Peters Church Northview TerraceA Life in Poetry

Martina reading 
for De Beauvoir’s Women’s Institute
The Crypt at St Peter’s church,
Northchurch terrace. 
 April 7th 2016
7.30 to 9.30pm

 

The-Bloomsbury-Hotel-1The Irish Literary Society:
The Stinging Fly Launch
Declan Meade and Sean O’Reilly in discussion.
Martina reading with Aisling Fahy
& Grahame Williams 
The Bloomsbury Hotel
16-22 Great Russell Street,
London WC1B 3NN 

March 21st 2016 7.30 -9.30pm  

more info here


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CAMDEN & LUMEN POETRY

Martina reading with Nicholas Murray& Roisin Tierney at Trinity United Reform Church,
1 Buck St, Camden Town 1-2 mins. Camden Town tube Entrance £5/£4   Wine Friday March 4th 2016   Doors open 6.30 – reading at 7pm.

 

Waterstones TCR 1_0CITY LIT at WATERSTONES

with Alan McGonagle,Jonathan Barnes
& City Lit Students, Waterstones 19-21 Tottenham Court Rd,London W1T 1BJ

Friday February 26th 2016 7.00 -9.pm

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Martina reading with Eve Grubin, John Greening, Andrew McCulloch at The Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT  January 28th 2016
18.30 – 20.30pm 

 

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Martina reading with Aideen Henry, Martin Dyer at City Literary Institute 1-10 Keely Street  London WC2B 4BA Saturday 12th September  12.15.13.45 MORE INFO

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will feature a reading by Martina Evans, Marius Kociejowski, Nicky Heinenis, Jehane Markham, Donald Gardner Vladislav Khodasevich read by his translator Peter Daniels – hosted by Anthony Howell. 7.30pm Saturday 5 September 2015 33 Holcombe Road, Tottenham Hale, N17 9AS   MORE INFO

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Martina reading with Gavin Corbett, Maurice Leitch and Patrick McCabe London Irish Centre Murray Street  Camden  July 30th 2015  more info 

London MetIrish Writer’s Summer School

Martina reading and discussing Burnfort Las Vegas  at London Metropolitan University 166- 220 Holloway Road London N7 8DB 6pm July 2nd 2015 more info

Greenwich Book Festival

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Anvil Press: Peter Jay, Martina Evans, Anthony Howell Free Admission but please reserve placesVenue: Queen Anne Building, Lecture Theatre 080  SAT 23RD May  8:00 pm to 9:00 pm
 

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Reading with Liane Strauss and Birkbeck students The Brick Lane Bookshop Eastside Books The Rib Man 166 Brick Lane London E1 6RU 23rd April 2015 at 7 pm  

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Martina reading with Hazel Frew, Samantha Wynne Rhydderch, Deirdre Shanahan and Roisin Tierney The Camden Irish Centre 30th April 2015 7pm

 

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A Writing Workshop with Martina Evans

Cork Spring Festival  One-morning workshop: Friday, 13 February 9.30am – 12.30pm, Price: €5 Further details here

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Martina with Julia Bell, Dave McGowan and guests Tuesday 24th February 7.45pm The King and Queen 1, Foley Street London W1 3DL In Yer Ear on Twitter 

 

RACK PRESS AT THE CAMDEN IRISH CENTRE

Martina reading with Hazel Frew, Samantha Wynne Rhydderch, Deirdre Shanahan and Roisin Tierney The Camden Irish Centre 30th April 2015 7pm  

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Martina reading with Liane Strass 9th December 7pm at Broadway Books  Broadway Market  Hackney  for more info click here Laurie Lee, Curator of Eccentricity Martina reading with Chaucer Cameron, David Clarke, Jeff Cloves, Adam Horovitz, Bill Jones, Sharon Larkin, John Nicol, Helen Petre, Philip Rush, Anna Saunders, April Staple, Cliff Yates.

Museum in the Park, Stroud, 12th September 8pm

 

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Martina Evans teaches poetry   drawing on cinematic techniques in the idyllic surroundings of the Keats House, Hampstead. NW3 2RR Sunday 14th September 2014 £46 To enrol contact infoline@citylit.ac.uk or 020 7492 2600   Petrol at the Duke of WellingtonPelmeni Poetry Series Martina reading with Liane Strauss, Philip Gross, Anja Konig Vesna Goldsworthy, and Anthony Joseph The Duke of Wellington Friday 6th June 2014 6.30pm for venue details click here details on Pelmeni Poetry click here

Meet The Neighbours

Martina reading at Holloway Arts Festival Sacred Cafe Hornsey Studios Tuesday June 3rd 7pm venue details click here

STORIES IN VERSE – 31st JULY 2014 8.30pm

Martina Evans is guest poet at The Arvon Foundation Totleigh Barton, Sheepwash Beaworthy Devon Her hosts are Ros Barber and Christopher Reid who are tutoring on Narrative poetry from July 28th – August 2nd. For more details contact totleighbarton@arvon.org.

N16 WRITERS 8pm March 10th 2014

Martina will read from Petrol and her forthcoming collection Burnfort Las Vegas with Nicholas Murray The Stoke Newington Bookshop, 159 Stoke Newington High Street, N16 0NY £2.50 admission includes a glass of wine. venue details click here

 Éigse Michael Hartnett – Poetry, Arts & Literary Festival

Martina with novelist Sheila Flanagan and singer Brian Hartnett at Eigse Michael Hartnett Newcastle West, Co Limerick Friday evening 11th April 2014 festival info click here

Silence, Exile and Cunning

Martina reading Jim Conwell, Michael McKimm, Deirdre Shanahan and Roisin Tierney The Camden Irish Centre 24th April 2014 7pm Free Entry for venue details and to register click here

In Yer Ear, Fitzrovia

Martina with Julia Bell, Desmond Byrne, Mandy De Waal, Ryan Addison Fletcher,Dave McGowan, Zoe Pilger Tuesday 29th April 7.45pm The King and Queen1, Foley StreetLondon W1 3DL In Yer Ear on Twitter