Talks, Interviews, Public Events

• Interviewer, ‘Nightshade Mother: In Conversation with Gwyneth Lewis’, National Library of Wales/hybrid (21 November 2024)
• Interviewer, Book launch for Matthew Francis, Nocturne with Gaslamps, Aberystwyth Waterstones (31 October 2024)
• ‘Revisiting RS and the Environment’, RS Thomas Literary Festival, St Michael’s Church, Eglwysfach (21 September 2024)
• With Malte Urban, ‘Rethinking Team-Taught Teaching: Literary Theory in English and Creative Writing’, Aberystwyth University 12th Annual Learning & Teaching Conference (12 September 2024)
• Contributor, Panel on Aberystwyth City of Literature Campaign, Aber Poetry Festival, The Bookshop by the Sea (6 May 2024)
• Interviewer, ‘Publishing Panel: The Publication Journey, with Susie Wild and Naji Bakhti', Aber Poetry Festival, Bank Vault (5 May 2024)
• Interviewer and event host, ‘Poetry and Wine Evening, with Karen McCarthy Woolf and Matthew Francis’, Aber Poetry Festival, National Library of Wales (4 May 2024)
• Interviewer, Book launch for Alis Hawkins and Philip Gwynne Jones, Ceredigion Library Aberystwyth (11 April 2024)
• Poetry performance, ‘Hope and Harmony’ event, AU 2023 Festival of Research, St Paul's Methodist Centre Aberystwyth (4 November 2023)
• Moderator, ‘Mid Wales: Leading a Peaceful Future’, AU 2023 Festival of Research, National Library of Wales (3 November 2023)
• ‘Earthsplaining: Welsh Literary Environments after Donahaye’, Keynote Lecture, Writing Welsh Environments: Changing Climates, Thirty-Third Annual Conference of the Association for Welsh Writing in English, Gregynog Hall, Newtown (12 May 2023)
• Panel moderator, Publishers panel, with Zoë Brigley and Rhian Edwards, Aberystwyth Poetry Festival (30 April 2023)
• Interviewer, Alys Hawkins, A Bitter Remedy, Aberystwyth Waterstones (31 March 2023)
• Panel moderator, ‘Creative Writing PhDs in an Age of Anxiety: Creating a Confident and Resilient Research Culture’, with Dr Nikolai Duffy, Dr Catherine Wilcox, Dr Kim Moore, and Anita Slater, Living as a Writer, NAWE 2023 Conference, online (10 March 2023)
• Interviewer, Launch of Jasmine Donahaye’s Birdsplaining, Aberystwyth Waterstones (26 January 2023)
• Interviewer, ‘Afternoon Tea with Gwyneth Lewis’, Society of Authors, ‘At Home’ online event (8 July 2021)
• With Louise Marshall and Malte Urban, ‘In Defence of the Hyflex Model’, Aberystwyth University 9th Annual Learning & Teaching Conference, online (1 July 2021)
• Interviewer, ‘An Evening with Patrick McGuinness’, Society of Authors Aberystwyth Group, online event (2021)
• In conversation with Cath Beard and Jasmine Donahaye: 'Responding to Donahaye’s "Motherlove"', Hearts & Minds: The Mental & Emotional Lives of Welsh Writing in English, Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Association for Welsh Writing in English, Gregynog Hall, Newtown, 12 May 2019
• Interviewer, Creative Keynote: 'Alys Conran in Conversation with Matthew Jarvis', Home/Cartref, Thirtieth Annual Conference of the Association for Welsh Writing in English, Gregynog Hall, Newtown, 12 May 2018
• Interviewer, John Barnie Double Book Launch, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, 12 April 2018
• ‘Theory Now: Terry Eagleton in Conversation with Dr Liz Oakley-Brown and Professor Matt Jarvis’, Lancaster University, 29 January 2018
• ‘English-Language Poetry and the London Welshman Magazine, 1959-1970’, Aberystwyth Bibliographical Group, National Library of Wales, 16 January 2018
• In conversation with Thomas Morris, Un-shared Futures?: Teaching the Literatures of Four Nations in Flux, University of Wolverhampton (5 Decmeber 2017)
• ‘Writing (out of) Wales: In Conversation with Alys Conran and Jonathan Edwards’, English: Shared Futures, Newcastle (7 July 2017)
• 'The Poetry of Patrick McGuinness: Writing under the Angel of Oblivion', Devolved Voices public lecture #7, Canolfan Alun R. Edwards, Aberystwyth (13 November 2015)
• ​'The Poetry of Tiffany Atkinson: Wit and the Body', ​Devolved Voices ​public lecture #6, St Paul's Methodist Centre, Aberystwyth (16 October 2015)
• 'The Early Poetry of Zoë Brigley: Reading/Writing Secrets', Devolved Voices public lecture #5, Founders' Library, Lampeter Campus, University of Wales Trinity Saint David (1 October 2015)
• 'Meirion Jordan's Moonrise: Wales, War and Conflict', Devolved Voices public lecture #4, Gas Gallery, Aberystwyth (18 September 2015)
• 'The Poetry of Nerys Williams: Writing the "Collapsed Lyric"', Devolved Voices public lecture #3, Gas Gallery, Aberystwyth (3 July 2015)
• 'The Poetry of Rhian Edwards: Of Language and Actants', Devolved Voices public lecture #2, Founders' Library, Lampeter Campus, University of Wales Trinity Saint David (18 June 2015)
• 'Poetry and the Loss of Place', Troubled Waters, Stormy Futures: Heritage in Times of Accelerated Climate Change, National Library of Wales (8 June 2015)
• 'Family and Community: The Poetry of Jonathan Edwards', Devolved Voices public lecture #1, Arts Centre Bookshop, Aberystwyth (28 May 2015)
• Interviewer, Launch of Footfalls in the Silence by John Barnie, Arts Centre Bookshop, Aberystwyth (30 October 2014)
• 'Devolutionary Complexities: Reading Three New Poets', Devolved Voices Online Symposium, online event (video presentation uploaded 29 July 2014)
• 'Wales and the UK: Poets, Reviews and Prizes' (with Peter Barry, Kathryn Gray, and Bronwen Williams, In/Dependent Wales: The Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Association for Welsh Writing in English, Gregynog Hall, Newtown (12 April 2014)
• 'Imagining Rural Regeneration through Poetry: Reading Ruth Bidgood', Approaches to Rural Sustainability and Regeneration: Dreams, Processes and Decision-Making, fforest, Ciligerran, Pembrokeshire (5 October 2013)
• 'Why map a Breconshire poet?', Digital Texts and Geographical Technologies, Lancaster University (9 July 2013)
• 'Devolved Voices: Exploring Welsh Poetry since Devolution', Keynote Lecture, New Research in Welsh Studies, Richard Burton Centre, Swansea University (18 June 2013)
• Panellist and interviewer, Homing In: The Aesthetics of Sustainability, Aberystwyth Arts Centre (14 June 2013)
• 'Devolved Voices' Poster Presentation (with Peter Barry, Kathryn Gray, and Bronwen Williams), Literary Topographies: Mapping Welsh Writing in English, Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Association for Welsh Writing in English, Gregynog Hall, Newtown (23 March 2013)
• ​Poetry Podcasts (5 to date), Planet Magazine, resident commentator, 2013 onwards
• 'Welsh Poetry in English since 1997: Devolutionary Challenges', Research Seminar, School of English, Bangor University (5 December 2012)
• 'Devolving Poetry: Questions, Directions', Research Seminar, Department of English & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University (24 October 2012)
• Interviewed by John Barnie, Launch of Ruth Bidgood (Writers of Wales), Arts Centre Bookshop, Aberystwyth (27 July 2012)
• 'Writing for Revolution? Reading the Red Poets', Wales and Revolution, Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Association for Welsh Writing in English, Gregynog Hall, Newtown (9 April 2011)
• Podcast on Ruth Bidgood's 'Valley-before-Night', Leafing Through, Planet, January 2011
• 'In/Human Place: The Poetry of John Barnie', Research Seminar, Department of English, University of Wales Lampeter (2 December 2009)
• 'In/Human Place: The Poetry of John Barnie', Research Seminar, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth (19 November 2009)
• 'In/Human Place: The Poetry of John Barnie', Placing Poetry Colloquium, Bangor University (7 November 2009)
• 'Recovering the History of Other Welsh Poetries', Hay Poetry Jamboree, Oriel Gallery of Contemporary Art, Hay on Wye (30 May 2009)
• 'Divergent Paths: Anglophone Welsh Poetry During the 1990s', Research Seminar, Department of Humanities and Languages, University of Glamorgan (13 May 2009)
• 'Visualising a Common Ground: Poets in a Welsh Landscape', Literary Illustration: Conservation, Access and Use, University of Wales Lampeter (18 March 2009)
• '"Sing for Wales or shut your trap – / All the rest's a load of crap": English-Language Poetry in Wales during the 1960s', John Tripp and Anglo-Welsh poetry of the 1960s, Academi, The Wharf, Cardiff (7 March 2009)
• '"Sing for Wales or shut your trap – / All the rest's a load of crap": English-Language Poetry in Wales during the 1960s', Research Seminar, Department of English, University of Wales Lampeter (15 October 2008)
• 'Becoming "Prifardd of English-speaking Wales": The Reception of R. S. Thomas in the 1960s and 1970s', Cliff Tucker Lecture in Poetry 2008, University of Wales Lampeter (6 March 2008)
• 'London Welshman and the Poetry Revival: Cross-Currents in 1960s Welsh poetry in English', Contempo Research Seminar, Department of English, Aberystwyth University (4 December 2007)
• 'Welcome to Wales: Water, Trees, Poetry', Research Seminar, Department of English, University of Wales Lampeter (10 October 2007)
• Launch of New Welsh Review 74, Millennium Centre, Cardiff (13 December 2006)
• Comments on and reading of the poetry of Leslie Norris, Leslie Norris Memorial Event, Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff (23 November 2006)
• 'Chris Torrance: The Diversity of Habitation', Travelling to New Worlds: Immigration, Emigration and the Experience of Wales, Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Welsh Writing in English, Gregynog Hall, Newtown (8 April 2006)
• 'The Spirituality of Place: Christine Evans's Bardsey', CREW Research Seminar, Department of English, Swansea University (30 November 2005)
• 'In Conversation with Robert Minhinnick', Rich Text Festival, Aberystwyth Arts Centre (29 September 2005)
• 'Reinhabiting Urban Space: Toxic Discourse and the Suppression of Environmental Consciousness', Cityscapes, National Library of Wales Aberystwyth (10 July 2004)
• 'Landscape: Skin of the Earth/Skin of the Land', Skin: Texture/Textuality/Word/Image, Institute of English Studies, London (15 April 2004)
• 'Visions of Nature in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts and Mike Gold's Jews Without Money', The Noise of History: Literature and Culture in the 1930s, Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea (2 November 2003)
• 'Barry MacSweeney's Moorland Romance', Creativity, Culture and Environment, ASLE-UK Conference, Bretton Hall, University of Leeds (7 September 2002)
• 'Semiotic Proliferation and Contemporary English Poetry', University of Wales Departments of English: Tenth Postgraduate/Staff Conference, Gregynog Hall (29 April 1999)
• 'Postmodernism/Poetry: Intersections?', Staff/Postgraduate Research Seminar, Department of English, University of Wales Aberystwyth (27 October 1998)
• 'Anti-Foundationalism and Contemporary English Poetry', University of Wales Departments of English: Ninth Postgraduate/Staff Conference, Gregynog Hall (24 April 1998)
• 'At and Beyond the End of English Poetry', The End, Gregynog Hall (29 October 1997)