Wed, Jan 26 2011 Faber Academy, Glasgow
Wed, 2 February 2011 British Library
Tues, Feb 1 2011 Athenaeum Club, London
Feb 12 2011 Poem and a Pint, Ulverston
Thurs, Feb 10 2011 London Review Bookshop
Mon, Feb 14 Love Poetry readings, Kings Place, London
Thurs, March 3 2011 St Anne's College, Oxford
Sat, March 19 2011 StAnza
Sun, March 20 2011 StAnza
Sun, March 27 2011 DLR Poetry Now Festival
Thurs, April 7 2011 Intelligence Squared, Faber Love Poetry Evening
15-17 April 2011 Cambridge Wordfest
Friday, May 6 2011 Ullapool Book Festival
Fri, May 13 2011 Lyric Festival, Sheffield
Sat, May 28 2011 Hay Festival, In Conversation with Owen Sheers
Sun, May 29 2011 Hay Festival, Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets
Wed, June 8 2011 University of Dundee Conference, High/Low
June 18-20 2011 St Magnus Festival
24-26 June 2011 Stone's Barn, workshop
July 8-10 2011 Poetry and Melancholia conference, Stirling University
Wed, July 27 2011, Woodend Barn, Banchory
Aug 15-20 2011 Arvon course with Lavinia Greenlaw
Tues, August 23 2011, Edinburgh International Book Festival
23-25 September 2011, Poetry on the Lake adjudicator
17-22 October 2011, Durham Festival Laureate
Thurs, Oct 27 2011 Swedenborg Hall, London
Mon, November 7 2011, Channing School
Wed, Nov 9 2011 University College School, Hampstead
Thurs, November 24 2011 St Mungo's Mirrorball
Fri, Dec 2 2011 Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

Diary 2010
Tue, Jan 12, 20110 Workshop on Four Quartets, Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh
Sat, Jan 23, 2010 Poetry School Seminar, Newcastle
Tue, Jan 26, 2010 UEA Writer’s Festival, Norwich
Sun, Jan 31, 2010 Pitlochry Way with Words festival
Fri, Feb 26, 2010 Kind of Larkin, Edinburgh Central Library
Sat, Feb 27, 2010 Bath Literature Festival
Sun, Feb 28, 2010 Poets for Haiti event, Queen’s Hall
Tue, Mar 2, 2010 lecture on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Scottish Poetry Library
Wed, Mar 10 2010 Edinburgh University
Sat, Mar 13 2010 Aye Write festival, Glasgow
Sun, Mar 21 StAnza festival, St Andrews
Sat, Mar 27 2010 Tower Poetry festival, Oxford
Sat, Apr 10 2010 Cambridge Wordfest
Sun, Apr 11 Cambridge Wordfest
Fri, Apr 23 2010 Links Hotel, Montrose
Fri, Apr 30 2010 Sevenoaks School, London
Sat, May 1 2010 Pigbaby festival, Brighton
Sun, May 9 2010 GVR, Edinburgh
Mon, May 17 2010 Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Sat, Jun 5 2010 Poetry School Seminar, London
June 15 – 17, 2010, Shakespeare seminar, Stones Barn, nr. Carlisle
Wed, Jun 30 2010 Chichester Festivities
Sat, Jul 3 2010 Ledbury Festival
Fri, Jul 9, 2010 Lincoln; ‘21st Century Writing in English’ Conference
Fri Jul 16 2010 Southwell Poetry Festival
Mon, Aug 30 2010 Edinburgh Book Festival
Sat, 14 August 2010 Chairing event at Edinburgh International Book Festival
..........with Sinéad Morrissey & John Stammers
Sun, 15 August 2010 Chairing event at Edinburgh International Book Festival
..........with Carol Ann Duffy
Mon, 16 August 2010 Chairing event at Edinburgh International Book Festival
..........with John Glenday
Thurs, 26 August 2010 Chairing event at Edinburgh International Book Festival.with Paul Muldoon
Thurs, 2 September 2010 Tesco Summer Read ceremony, Edinburgh Central Library
Sat, 4 September 2010, McLellan Arts Festival
September 15 – 17 2010 British and Irish Contemporary Poetry Conference,
Seamus Heaney Centre / Queen's University Belfast
Sat, 25 September 2010, Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea
Sun, 26 September 2010 Workshop, Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea
Tue, 28 Sept 2010 Lit and Phil, Newcastle
Sat, 2 Oct 2010 Ilkley Festival
Sun, 3 Oct 2010 Beverley Literary Festival
Sat, 9 October 2010 Foyles Bookshop, London
Sat, 9 October 2010 Cheltenham Literature Festival
Thu, Oct 14, 2010 92nd St Y, New York
Fri, Oct 15 2010 NYU, New York
5-7 Nov 2010 Aldeburgh Festival
Mon, 8 November 2010 Book Now Literature Festival, Richmond
10 Nov 2010 Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, 7pm
Sat, 20 November 2010 Poetry School workshop, Durham
Wed 24 Nov 2010 Faber Academy, Edinburgh