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Poetry reading at The Pear Tree in Bloom event in Battersea Park 25 May 2017

Tuppence Creative director Alexandra Dover organised an event by the lake in Battersea Park to celebrate the Chelsea Flower Show and raise awareness and aid for the important research of insect life. Tickets were available to the public and gifted free to Chelsea Pensioners. Alexandra asked me to come read a few poems. It's actually the first outdoors reading I've done and it was very atmospheric. A hazy, heady summer evening. I read Paper Tigers and Euphoric Kiss on the stage next to the boating lake in Battersea Park.

Opera singers Skye Vocal performed. The actor Matt Barber read Henry James. There was also a live beehive on display, to raise awareness of the importance bees in our environment and all money raised by ticket sales was donated to RHS Science.