Poetry readings, live art performances and installations have taken her across the globe. As part of her library science & live art experiment, The Itinerant Poetry Librarian she has performed and installed a travelling public library of poetry in 11 countries and 21 cities as of November 2008, signing up over 850 members in over 150 different locations, and providing over 1000 hours of public library service to the citizens of these diverse communities. Poetry readings and live art installations have seen her perform her work at the Glastonbury festival in the UK, and at festivals and literary events across Europe and North America including the British Council in Berlin, Antwerp, Amsterdam and City Hall in San Francisco.

Installations / Performances / Readings (selected)


2008: USA, NETHERLANDS & GERMANY

Sonntag Exhibition, Library installation (Leipzig, November - December: weekly)
MZIN, Library installation (Leipzig, September - December: monthly)
Schreibmaschinen Café, Library installation (Leipzig, October - December: weekly)
Die Kassette Gallery, Library installation (Leipzig, September - December: weekly)
Someone's Private Residential Address, Library installation (Leipzig, September)
Café Mule, Library installation (Leipzig, September)
Saltoflorale Flowershop, Library installation (Leipzig, September)
Street Market, Library installation (Amsterdam, August)
Perdu, Library installation (Amsterdam, August)
Boekie Woekie, Library installation (Amsterdam, August)
Sterre Der Zee Bookshop, Library installation (Amsterdam, August)
Pirate Cat Radio station & Café, Library installation (San Francisco, June)
The Haight Street Fair, Library installation (San Francisco, June)
‘Poem Under the Dome’, City Hall, Library installation & Poetry reading (San Francisco, April)
Redhill Books, Library installation (San Francisco, March - June: weekly)
The Naughty Librarians’ Convention, Renegade Library installation (San Francisco, March)
The Marsh Theatre, Library installation (San Francisco, February - June: weekly)
Frankenartmart Gallery, Library installation (San Francisco, February - June: weekly)

Europe ConVerses Tour posterPoem Under the Dome PosterThe Poetry Cubicle Presents posterGlastonbury laminate

2007: USA & CANADA
The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives, Lecture and presentation: 'The Poetics of the Library' (San Francisco, November)
The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives, poetry reading & performance (San Francisco, September)
Vancouver Public Library strike picket line, (Vancouver BC, Canada, August)
Six Acres, (Vancouver BC, Canada, August)
The Gaff Gallery, Library installation (Vancouver BC, Canada, August)
The Regional Assembly of Text, Library installation (Vancouver BC, Canada, August)
Spartacus Books, Library installation (Vancouver BC, Canada, August)
Richard Hugo House, Library installation (Seattle, Washington, August)
Elliott Bay Book Co., Library installation (Seattle, Washington, August)
Outside Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, Library installation (Seattle, Washington, August)
PICA (Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts), Library installation (Portland, Oregon, July)
Someone's Private Residential Address, Library installation (Portland, Oregon, July)
In Other Words - Bookshop & Women's Resource Center, Library installation (Portland, Oregon, July)
Free Skool Portland, Library installation (Portland, Oregon, July)
IPRC - The Independent Publishing Resource Center, Library installation (Portland, Oregon, July)
Spare Room Reading Series, Library installation (Portland, Oregon, July)
Reading Frenzy - An Independent Press Emporium, Library installation (Portland, Oregon, July)
Frankenartmart, Library installation (San Francisco, June)
Claremont House Residential Complex (Retirement Home), Library installation (Oakland, CA, June)
The Park Branch Library, Library installation (San Francisco, June)
The Haight Street Fair (40th Anniversary), Library installation (San Francisco, June)
Complements of the Stars & Garters Theatre Troupe at The Voice Factory, Library installation (San Francisco, June)
The Prelinger Library, Library installation (San Francisco, May)
Pizza Takeaway Joint, Library installation (San Francisco, May)
The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives, Library installation (San Francisco, May)
‘Poem Under the Dome’, City Hall, Library installation (San Francisco, April 30)
San Francisco Browning Society, ‘The Sequoias’ Retirement Complex, Library installation (San Francisco, April 11 & May 11)
On the street between 16th & Mission, near the BART station, Library installation (San Francisco, April)
The Marsh Theatre, Library installation (San Francisco, March - June: weekly)
Someone's Private Residential Address, Library installation (San Francisco, April)
Pegasus Bookshop, Downtown Berkeley, Library installation (San Francisco, April)
Abandoned Planet Bookstore, Library installation (San Francisco, March & April)
Dog-Eared Books, Library installation (San Francisco, February - June: monthly)
Adobe Books, Library installation (San Francisco, February)

2006: European Union (Belgium, UK, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, France, Spain, Netherlands)

‘Nacht Van De Powezie’, Library installation & Poetry reading (November, Antwerp, Belgium)
York Arts Festival, Library installation & Poetry reading (October, York, UK)
Norwich Fringe Festival, Library installation (October, Norwich, UK)
‘Europe ConVerses’ 2006 EU tour (selected):
Europe ConVerses logo
Ruigoord Poetry Festival ‘Vurige Tonguen’, Library installation & Poetry reading (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June)
British Council Library, British Council Germany headquarters, Library installation (Berlin, Germany, June)
Buchhandlung Im Kunsthof bookshop, Library installation (Dresden, Germany, June)
Shakespeare & Sons bookshop, Library installation (Prague, Czech Republic, June)
WUK gallery, Library installation (Vienna, Austria, June/July)
The Naschmarkt, Library installation (Vienna, Austria, June/July)
The Budapest Bardroom, Library installation (Budapest, Hungary, July)
Treehugger Dan’s Bookstore, gallery & café, Library installation (Budapest, Hungary, July)
The Bookstation, Library installation (Budapest, Hungary, July)
Shakespeare & co., Library installation (Paris, France, July)
Elephant Books, Library installation (Barcelona, Spain, August)
Hibernian Books, Library installation (Barcelona, Spain, August)
Landjuweel Festival, Library installation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August)
The Poetry Society Café, Library installation (London, UK, August)

SWG reads at Norwich Arts Center
2005 - PREVIOUS

Norwich Fringe Festival, 2002, 2004, 2005 (included poetry readings and the poetry & performance art installations ‘Activate The Poet’, ‘Head in a Box Poetry’ and ‘How to Become a Poet’)
New Writing Partnership, performance & reading, 2004 & 2005
Essex Book Festival, reading, 2003
The Poetry Cubicle International Women's Day, live performance, readings, audio-visual installation, music, curated by The Poetry Cubicle, 2003
Glastonbury Festival, installation of 'The Poetry Cubicle Marquee', 2002 & 2003
The Poetry Cubicle at The Frontier Gallery (one month poetry & performance art installation), 2003
The Dutch Connection Tour, reading (Norwich, Birmingham, London), 2003
The Poetry Society Café, reading, London, 2000 & 2003
The Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, reading, 2002
Fakenham Festival of Print, installation of 'The Poetry Cubicle Library', reading, 2002
Norwich: A Fine City of Culture (video), City of Culture (Europe) 2008 bid, reading, 2002
The Jazz Café, reading, University of East Anglia, 2000-2002
Norfolk and Norwich Festival (Poetry In Motion project on Anglia Railways), reading & performance, 2000
Bristol Art Library Tour, reading & intervention, Cromer Pier, 2000
Changing Lives, installation & exhibition of paintings & 3D work, Changing Lives exhibition, 3 storey residential house, Norwich, 1997