News . . .

Tuesday 26th September 2023 – Martyn contributed to Shanta Acharya’s event at The Nehru Centre, 8 South Audley Street, London W1K 1HF @ 6:30-8.30 pm. Shanta was the main reader; Martyn and Sue Hubbard read some of Shanta’s work as well as some of their own poetry. Book here.

Saturday 7th October – Martyn will be on a panel of three translators at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, discussing his translation of Lutz Seiler’s selected essays, In Case of Loss (And Other Stories, November 2023) With Mustafa Gündoğdu and Neda Tehrani they will be discussing and previewing their forthcoming PEN Translates books. Chaired by Will Forrester @ The Regency Suite, Queens Hotel, Cheltenham: 5.30 – 6.30pm.

Thursday 12th October 2023 – Martyn will be appearing at the Goethe-Institut, 50 Princes Gate Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PH as part of an And Other Stories event on their publication of Lutz Seiler’s fiction, poetry and selected essays (for the latter click here). Details tbc.

Tuesday 24th October 2023 – Martyn will launch his most recent collection of poems, Between a Drowning Man (Salt), reading alongside two other Salt poets, Elisabeth Sennitt-Clough and Becky Varley-Winter 7pm @ The Betsey Trotwood pub, Clerkenwell, London. Details tbc

Saturday 2nd December 2023 – Martyn will be reading as guest poet at Enfield Poets in north London. Details tbc.

Friday, 8th December 2023 – Martyn will be reading work, including from his new collection, Between a Drowning Man (Salt, 2023), at Ware Poets, 8pm @ Southern Maltings, Kibes Lane, Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 7BS: £5/£4 concs. Open mic.

Sunday, 21st January 2024 – Martyn will be reading from Between a Drowning Man (Salt) alongside Julian Stannard, another Salt poet @ Torriano Meeting House in Camden, London

Sunday 3rd March 2024 – Martyn will be reading work, including from his new collection, Between a Drowning Man (Salt), at Buzzwords in Cheltenham 8pm @ Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham: £5/£3 concs. Open mic.

Wednesday 24th April 2024 – Martyn will reading reading from Change Your Life: Rilke Selected Poems (Pushkin Press) @ Five Leaves Bookshop in Nottingham.