K Patrick in conversation with Éadaoín Lynch
21 February 2024, Lavender Menace Archive
Reading and Q&A with K Patrick at the Lavender Menace Archive—this event was recorded and will be available on playback.
Launching Linden McMahon’s All the Plants I Have Half-Grown
11 March 2024, Typewronger Books
Supporting Linden McMahon’s pamphlet launch.
This selection of ecopoetry begins with disconnection – from each other and our ecosystems – and reaches towards connection. Via goldfinches and skyscrapers, brambles and libations, compost and glitter, these poems feel along the sometimes strange and uncomfortable threads that link us to our ecologies – expanding the magic of queer kin-making across the borders of species.
Previous events
Spit It Out Takeover
Push the Boat Out Festival
Sat 25 November 2023
Spit It Out took over PTBO for an afternoon of powerful poetry and spoken word from Jj Fadaka, Bobby Sayers, Éadaoín Lynch, Inga Dale and Ravideep Kaur.
Queer Poetry Evening at Kafe Kweer
21 October 2023
A relaxed late afternoon poetry show, with local queer poets, and an open mic session during the break.
Poetry and Céilí Music
Ledbury Poetry Festival
9 Jul 2023
A solo reading from my Nine Pens pamphlet Fierce Scrow, interspersed with performances on the fiddle from my North Clare céilí music background.
Hidden Door Festival
2 June 2023
In the abandoned Scottish Widows Complex on Dalkeith Road, as part of the multi-arts festival Hidden Door, I performed readings from my pamphlet Fierce Scrow in my first solo gig.
Shore Poets
26 January 2023
Reading to celebrate the Re·creation Anthology, featuring myself, Alycia Pirmohamed, Jinhao Xie, Andrés N. Ordorica & Kira Scott
Feature Poet - Rock the Boat
Rock the Boat Open Mic, a branch of the annual Edinburgh-based Push the Boat Out Festival, invited me to be their feature poet at their October 2022 reading in Summerhall.
Slam Competition Judge & Volunteer at StAnza: Scotland’s International Poetry Festival
Alongside, e.g., Joelle Taylor, Robbie MacLeòid, Erin McElhinney, and Catherine Wilson Garry (2020 - Present)
Chairing
Chair of numerous events — most recently, the launch of Emily Garside’s Love that Journey for Me: The Queer Revolution of Schitt’s Creek with 404 Ink and Lighthouse Bookshop.
Kabaret Kweer & Poetry Piknik
Multiple appearances (2021-Present)
in partnership with Kafe Kweer and Lighthouse Bookshop
Shameless: A celebration of queer being & belonging
(November 2021)
Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair, in collaboration with Anamot Press
Reading drafts from debut pamphlet alongside Callie Rose Petal, Katalina Watt, and Andrés Ordorica.
Guest on TLS podcast
5 November 2020
‘You Have Fixed Me’
I joined Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas to remember fully and truthfully the relationship between the poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.