2006 ‘Taking You Home’, Argyll Publications, work with Iain Crichton Smith and Derick Thomson. Extracts: BBC Radio 3 Programme 1988, Pick of the Week. Poem ‘Farewell’, set to music for Scottish Voices, Edinburgh Fringe 2023, recording 2027.
2009 International Darwin Conference, University of Bradford, Writer in Residence. Darwin sequence illustrated by Mary Kuper, V&A Collection.
2012 The Burial of Lord Byron, University of Leicester, reading with cello and dance. Text illustrated by Mary Kuper, V&A Collection.
2015 Opening Ceremony, International Byron Conference, The Shakespeare Theatre, Gdansk, reading with music and 4 Eurythmic dancers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDVVDgvGfM4
2016 Villa Diodati, University of Leicester, reading with cello.
2017 Shared Futures, National Conference on the Teaching of English at Universities. Paper: Writing the Romantic Poets.
2018 The British Library, London. Performance of Villa Diodati with music trio to mark the bicentenary of the publication of ‘Frankenstein’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUKl-1aleSg
2019 The British Library, London, Performance from Keats poem biography ‘A Scattering of Words on Water’ with music trio and dance to mark the bicentenary of Keats’ Odes. Repeated: Keats-Shelley House, Rome.
2022 MacDiarmid Conference, Brest, France. Paper: Cognitive Dissonance and Creativity in Ian Crichton Smith, Derick Thomson and Hugh MacDiarmid.
2022 British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, International Conference. Reading: ‘On Adonais’, Coda to ‘A Scattering of Words on Water’, Keats poem biography.
2024 World Congress of Scottish Literature, University of Nottingham. Paper:
War Trauma and Creativity in MacDiarmid.
2025 The British Society for Literature and Science. Paper: The Brontës and Dyslexia.
2025 International Byron Conference, University of Pisa. Paper: Lord Byron and the Brontës.
2025 ‘A Scattering of Words on Water’ 1200-line poem biography of John Keats featured by the Keats-Shelley Association of America in Commonplacing 3.
K-SJ+ Special Issue Volume 3 released today. Read it here: https://www.k-saa.org/commonplacing-special-issue-vol-3
2028 Editor, The Islands Book Trust, collected papers for the centenary of Iain Crichton Smith. Project support from: Scottish Maker and senior staff at the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews.
2017-19 Honorary Fellow, University of Leicester, Centre for New Writing.
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YouTube: www.youtube.com/wordworthywriting
Mary Kuper: www.marykuper.com