Poetry reading at Atlantis Bookshop, Museum Street, Bloomsbury, London 27 Sep 2016

I had a beautiful, very special evening tonight. I was reading poems from The Lock And The Key and Rocking Underground, in the iconic Atlantis bookshop. It was an intimate setting, with an audience of around 25 people, all from different channels, but all there tied by their love of Atlantis and and their love of poetry. In additon to my published work, I decided to introduce a new, recently written poem into the set. I thought if I were to perform it for the first time anywhere, surely, it should be there. After my reading I enjoyed the chance to talk to everybody there and sign books for everyone. It had been a particularly special reading for me, I felt so overwhelmed with gratitude, and that positive energy seemed to be running through everybody. I was truly touched by the feedback I received.

The shop is run by the wonderful Geraldine Beskin and her lovely daughter Bali. Atlantis was founded by Michael Houghton in 1922, and afterwards Geraldine's father ran the shop before Geraldine took over at the age of 19. It has been running now for 94 years and is Londons oldest independent occult bookshop, with associations to artists and writers such as Austin Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, W.B Yeats and D.H Lawrence .