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OPEN Ealing readings on video

Below is a video of my reading at OPEN Ealing's highly-successful inaugural poetry evening on Wednesday 15 February.




Here are those by the other guest poets: Marcus Slease, SJ Fowler and Cherry Smyth.








And a couple from the open-mic session: Michael Zand and Amy Evans.



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