What’s on
Here’s a place to catch up with gigs, workshops and events coming up over the next 3 months.
Online Workshops
I’ve run workshops for over 20 years. I pride myself on my ability to bring people together through poetry. It’s a chance to experiment, a chance to find a space to write.
STANZA - Scotland’s International Poetry Festival
What does wild mean to you? You can be assured to find it, and many other surprises, in St Andrews and online at this year’s festival. Environmental and landscape poetries. Unrestrained performances. Poetics which resist or re-wild existing forms. Poetries which challenge cultural and political norms. Wildly out-of-the-box, boundary-defying thinking and writing (because well might we need it…) Work which contests notions of ‘wildness’, ‘wilderness’ and ‘re-wilding’, and how these terms have been used (e.g. postcolonial writings which resist assumptions behind terms like ‘the wild west’). Involving poets and artists from across Scotland, the UK and overseas, we’ll explore this and more in a wild, long weekend of poetry, which will once more be delivered in hybrid form.
https://stanzapoetry.org/events/reading-arji-manuelpillai-and-theresa-munoz/
Off the Chest at Canada Water Theatre
An explosive and inclusive poetry night featuring Birmingham Poet Laureate Jasmine Gardosi and Arji Manuelpillai.
Off the Chest returns to Canada Water Theatre for another inclusive spoken word poetry night celebrating original voices and poetry that makes a statement.
This explosive night will include special features from three acclaimed poets, plus opportunities to perform in their highly celebrated open mic, welcome to poets of all backgrounds, stages and ages. Sign up for the open mic on the night.
https://www.canadawatertheatre.org.uk/2547/Off-The-Chest
ONLINE: An Evening with Arji Manuelpillai
The guest poet for this event is Arji Manuelpillai, reading from his debut collection "Improvised Explosive Device"
Wordsworth Grasmere online event
Poetry in Aldeburgh
Poetry Performance
The Aldeburgh Bookshop 42 High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP15 5AB
Poetry in Aldeburgh. Poetry for Change
Arji is running a workshop in the gallery
The Aldeburgh Bookshop 42 High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP15 5AB
BOOK LAUNCH: Improvised Explosive Device by Arji Manuelpillai
Celebrate Arji’s debut book Improvised Explosive Devise with special guests
Morocco Bound, 1A Morocco Street, SE1 3HB
Sheaf Poetry Festival
An examination of contemporary issues in poetry. Featuring poets Jacqueline Saphra, Kate Fox and Arji Manuelpillai
Millenium Gallery, 48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield City Centre, S1 2PP
Chener Books Poetry Month 4
A reading at Chener Books Month 4
14 Lordship Ln, London SE22 8HN, UK
Southbank Centre
A reading at The Southbank Centre
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Improvised Explosive Device
Purchase Arji’s DEBUT BOOK Improvised Explosive Device
A poetry book society recommendation
Published 24 October 2022
The release of brand new Poetry Review
To celebrate the opening of the brand new issue of Poetry Review I shall be reading at the illustrious online event. Tickets to be put on sale soon
Poetry at the Harrison
It’s at The Harrison pub in Kings Cross. There’s a range of wonderful poets all reading about The Body. It promises to be a really good one,
Malika's Poetry Kitchen in Woolwich
An opportunity to catch me and Malika’s rocking a brand new space in Woolwich
https://www.woolwich.works/events/malikas-poetry-kitchen-1
Workshop in Southwark
Poet and performer Arji Manuelpillai is joining us for an afternoon of celebrating the joy of poetry, whether you are new to poems or a tried and tested expert, come down to the library to listen and learn about poetry before writing your very own poem.
Reading at the Betsy Trotwood, London
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Adults real life workshop at City Lit - Taste of poetry
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Children’s Workshops at Manor Park Library in Newham
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.