I have two reading dates coming up in the next couple of weeks as follows:

Firstly, on Thursday, 25th June @ 7.30pm I’m looking forward to reading poems with Kate Noakes and also listening to some jazz as part of the Festival of Chichester. Thanks to Barry Smith for the invitation. Here’s the Festival blurb for the whole event…

Acclaimed poets Martyn Crucefix and Kate Noakes link with Mike Carey’s Big House Jazz ensemble to entertain and inspire. Plus the launch of Poetry & All That Jazz magazine with South Downs poets. Enjoy a delightful mix of words and music with complementary homemade cake. Based in Arundel and well-known throughout Sussex and the South, the Big House Jazz ensemble will be featuring classic jazz by Count Basie and Duke Ellington plus original tunes. Both prizewinning poets will read from their new collections – Kate Noakes, Sublime Lungs (Two Rivers Press) and Martyn Crucefix: Our Weird Regiment (Shearsman Books).

Details: The Poetry & Jazz Café, Assembly Room, North Street, Chichester, PO19 1LQ. Thursday, June 25, 7.30pm (doors 7pm). Tickets £15

Book Tickets for this event here: Focus Arts – South Downs Poetry Festival event tickets from TicketSource.

Secondly, on the evening of Tuesday, 7th July @ 7.45pm, I’m making a delightful return visit to Ouse Muse also with my new collection of poems, Our Weird Regiment (Shearsman Books). Thanks to Ian McEwen for the invitation. Ouse Muse events take place in the wonderful Eagle Bookshop, 16-20 St Peters Street, Bedford, MK40 2NN – https://maps.app.goo.gl/cAfo72bLZrSuFhoJ6.

Here’s the bookshop blurb for the evening: Ouse Muse returns, with guest reader Martyn Crucefix, for a poetry open mic night run by local poets and open to anyone with poetry or short prose to share. The night often opens with performances by guest stars before things devolve into literary chaos.

More details here: https://eaglebookshop.co.uk/events/2026/7/7/ouse-muse-july Bookshop doors open at 19:45 for an 8 o’clock start. There’s no need to book, an entrance fee of £5 is paid upon arrival. If you wanted to pick up a book or two from our shelves you can use this entrance ticket as a £5 voucher for the rest of the month. 

If you are in the areas, I hope to see you at one or other of these events.