Mary Jean Chan

_{22 Jan: 20th Century & Contemporary Literature Graduate Research Seminar, Faculty of English, Cambridge}

_{8 Feb: Faber at 90, Readings by Richard Scott & Mary Jean Chan, National Portrait Gallery, London}

_{22 Feb: 40 Years of Gay's the Word Bookshop, A Celebration at the British Library, London}

_{8 Mar: Border Crossings, StAnza 2019, Scotland's International Poetry Festival, St Andrews}

_{20 Mar: The National Poetry Competition 40th Anniversary Readings, Kings Place, London}

_{25 Mar: Readings at the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Poetry, The House of Lords, Westminster, London}

_{25 Apr: AWPI Keynote Poetry Reading by Mary Jean Chan, Humanities Institute, University College Dublin}

_{26 Apr: AWPI Plenary Roundtable on the PhD in Creative Writing, Humanities Institute, UCD}

_{3 May: Keats Bicentenary Readings, Rachael Allen, Mary Jean Chan & Isabel Galleymore, Keats House, London}

_{23 May: Oxford Review of Books Trinity Term Poetry Readings, Balliol College, University of Oxford}

_{12 June: Mary Jean Chan, Sarah Howe & Jennifer Wong with Dorothy Wang, The Poetry Cafe, London}

_{14 June: Poetry: Introducing Jay Bernard’s Surge & Mary Jean Chan’s Flèche, Greenwich Book Festival, London}

_{15 June: Roundtable on Canons and Values in Contemporary Literary Studies, University of Southampton}

_{26 June: National Poetry Library Lates, Mary Jean Chan & Keith Jarrett, Hayward Gallery Cafe, London}

_{27 June: Wasafiri Queer Worlds/Global Queer Issue Launch, Waterstones, Tottenham Court Road, London}

_{*5 July: Launch of Debut Collection Flèche with Will Harris & Sarah Howe, London Review Bookshop, London}

_{12 July: Debut Collections with Jay Bernard & Mary Jean Chan, Gay's the Word Bookshop, London}

_{*17 July: Launch of Debut Collection Flèche in Conversation with Daisy Johnson, Blackwell's Westgate, Oxford}

_{24 July: Readings by Fiona Benson & Mary Jean Chan, John Hewitt International Summer School, NI, Armagh}

_{4 Sept: Guest Reader, Arvon Totleigh Barton, Towards a Collection with Tom Chivers & Sarah Hesketh, Devon}

_{11 Sept: Readings by Mary Jean Chan, Rishi Dastidar, S J Fowler & Chrissy Williams, The Poetry Cafe, London}

_{21 Sept: Readings by Mary Jean Chan & Luke Kennard, Milton Keynes Literary Festival, Milton Keynes}

_{24 Sept: Readings by Mona Arshi, Mary Jean Chan & Jacqueline Saphra, Waterstones Gower Street, London}

_{1 Oct: Faber & Faber 90th Anniversary Poetry Readings: A Celebration, exact venue (TBC), London}

_{11 Oct: Debut Poets Showcase hosted by Anthony Anaxagorou, The Cheltenham Literature Festival, Cheltenham}

_{14 Oct: Readings by Mary Jean Chan & Will Harris, Cafe Writers, The Louis Marchesi, Norwich}

_{20 Oct: The 2019 Forward Prizes for Poetry Awards Ceremony, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London}

_{21 Oct: Readings by Mary Jean Chan & Chen Chen, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool}

_{2-3 Nov: Readings and Workshops, The 19th Hong Kong International Literary Festival, Hong Kong}

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^{24 Jan: The Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critics, University of Birmingham}

^{8 Feb: Poetry London Spring 2018 Readings, Kings Place, London}

^{15 Feb: Lodestone Poets at Tottenham Court Road | Waterstones, London}

^{22 Feb: International Mother Languages Day, Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester}

^{27 Feb: Race and Equality (An Evening of Poetry and Film), King's College London}

^{7 Mar: ignitionpress pamphlet launch, The Poetry Cafe, London}

^{8 Mar: ignitionpress pamphlet launch, Society Cafe, Oxford}

^{25 Mar: ignitionpress pamphlet launch, The Oxford Literary Festival, Oxford}

^{12 Apr: ignitionpress pamphlet launch, Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh}

^{23 Apr: Celebration of Adrienne Rich with Poet in the City, Wilton's Music Hall, London}

^{30 Apr: Carcanet New Poetries VII Launch, The London Review Bookshop, London}

^{2 May: An Evening of Faber Poetry Readings (Spring 2018), Bloomsbury House, London}

^{4 May: Carcanet New Poetries VII Launch, The Old Library, All Souls College, Oxford}

^{28 May: Reading with Amy Key, Claudine Toutoungi & Eleni Cay, the Troubadour, London}

^{30 May: Reading with Will Harris, Theophilus Kwek & Jennifer Tsai, 11 Bedford Square, London}

^{31 May: Reading at the UN Human Rights Symposium, The American School in London}

^{5 June: Out-Spoken Live at the 100 Club, 100 Oxford Street, London}

^{8 June: The Forward Prizes at the Second Home Literary Festival, Holland Park, London}

^{16 June: "Poets Poets" Day 2018 (Readings & Discussion), UCL English Department, London}

^{18 June: Poetry Reading Series at Bradfield College, Bradfield, Berkshire}

^{20 June: Rogers, Coleridge & White Literary Salon, RCW Offices, London}

^{30 June: Poetry and Psychoanalysis Conference, The Institute of Psychoanalysis, London}

^{5 July: The National Poetry Competition Winners, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Ledbury}

^{6 July: Modern Poetry in Translation with Richard Scott & Jennifer Tsai, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Ledbury}

^{8 July: 20 minutes with Mary Jean Chan, The Ledbury Poetry Festival, Ledbury}

^{12 July: Launch of The Dictionary of Rare and Precious Words, Oxford Spires Academy, Oxford}

^{19 July: Reading with Richard Scott and Sophie Robinson, Islington | Waterstones, London}

^{25 July: The Poetry Book Society Summer Showcase, Southbank Centre, London}

^{6 Sept: Modern Poetry in Translation London Launch, Gay's the Word, London}

^{7 Sept: The White Review Poetry Salon with Raymond Antrobus and Rachel Long, Burley Fisher Books, London}

^{30 Sept: The Echo Chamber with Paul Farley, the BBC Contains Strong Language Festival, Hull}

^{16 Oct: An Evening of Poetry and Classical Music, Goodenough College, London}

^{27 Oct: Race and Poetry and Poetics in the UK (RAPAPUK) Conference, Queen's College, Cambridge}

^{3 Nov: "Queer Studio" with Richard Scott and guest readers, Poetry in Aldeburgh, Suffolk}

^{10 Nov: Reading with ignitionpress poets, the Woodstock Poetry Festival, Oxford}

^{29 Nov: Reading and launch of Wretched Strangers, Waterstones, Oxford}

^{10 Dec: Reading with Eley Williams and Gulsum Altinbas, Sid Motion Gallery, London}