Stuart Henson has read at venues as diverse as Arts Junction, Arundel; Blackwell’s Oxford; The Bridlington Poetry Festival; The CB1 Café; Five Leaves Bookshop; Heffer’s Cambridge; Herringbroom Studios; Little Gidding Poetry Society; The Landsdowne Club, Luton; Lauderdale House; Lumen; Nottingham Poetry Society; The Palmers Green Bookshop; The Poetry Society; Southwell Minster; The Sow & Pigs, Toddington; The Torriano Meeting House; The US Embassy; Ware Poets and The Voice Box at the South Bank Centre.
He has read for Radio 3 and the BBC World Service and he has worked as visiting writer in secondary schools, primary schools, on courses for teachers—and in a prison.
‘A Handful of Wasps’
Shortlisted for the 2023-2024 Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year Award
Nottingham-based folk duo Sheepish Grin accompanying the reading from Feast of Fools at the Bluebell Inn, Helpston, April 2017
Some of Stuart’s recent reviews for London Grip can be found at this link: London Grip
Ten Poems About Sheds – by Fleur Adcock, Alison Brackenbury, John Greening, Stuart Henson, Kathleen Jamie, Derek Mahon, John McAuliffe, M. R. Peacocke, Carol Rumens & Vernon Scannell – launched at The Urban Shed in Cambridge on 4th April 2018
