2025: Chris' poem The broom upside down is commended in the National Poetry Competition.
Performance of Roderick Williams' 3 Songs from Ethiopia Boy, as part of Chineke! Orchestra's 10th anniversary celebration at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 24 Jan 2025, also repeated on BBC Radio 3 (details on News page)
More Wheatsheaf & The Ship poetry events, featuring Malika Booker, Jane Duran, John McAuliffe, Caroline Maldonado, Alex
Wong, Bill Herbert, Fiona Moore, Richard Price, Tom Bailey, Chris Timmins & Andrew Dennison.
Chris' poems Zerihun and Mebrat's fear in Tears in the Fence 82.
2024: Wheatsheaf Poetry: a new reading series curated by Chris Beckett & Isao Miura, including performances so far by Hannah
Lowe, Mimi Khalvati, Jacqueline Saphra, Keith Jarrett, Eric Yip, James Womack, Paul Stephenson, Phoebe Stuckes, Jo Roach,
Robert Seatter, Tristram Fane Saunders, Astrid Alben and Patrick Romero McCafferty
Poem Bob & Moses in Ink Sweat & Tears
2023: Poems in Magma 87 Islands
Library of Congress, Washington DC: Discussion event about Songs We Learn from Trees
2022: Poems & Translations in PN Review & The North 68
Poetry School course: Transreading Ethiopia
Songs We Learn from Trees: the UK Tour, including 6 Ethiopian poets and performances in London, Leeds, Manchester and
Oxford
2021: Poems & Translations in Bad Lilies & MPT
Review of Ann Ryland's latest collection in Dog House Review
First chapter of Abebe, the cook's son published in Hinterland (the best creative non-fiction)
Songs We Learn from Trees shortlisted for Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry
Words Without Borders: interview with Linda Johannes about Ethiopian poetry scene
Poetry School course: Childhood, a source of Praise
Poetry in Aldeburgh reading: Contemporary Ethiopian Poetry with Chris Beckett, Mihret Kebede, Misrak Terefe, Bedilu Wakjira
& Kebedech Tekleab
2020: Publish: Tenderfoot (Carcanet)
Publish: Songs We Learn from Trees (Carcanet)
BBC Radio 4 Front Row with Chris Beckett & Alemu Tebeje
Podcast about Tenderfoot with Niall Munro, Oxford Brookes at OBU Poetry Centre
Podcast about Tenderfoot with Emma Carmichael from Travelling Through
2019: Roderick Williams and the Chineke! Orchestra perform Three Songs from Ethiopia Boy at Queen Elizabeth Hall and Hull City
Hall and on BBC Radio 3
2018: Exhibition at APT Gallery Deptford: Travels in a Paper Coat, inspired by Matsuo Basho's The Narrow Road to the Deep North:
a multi-media exhibition with artist Isao Miura, filmmaker Nikolai Azariah & poet Chris Beckett.
Performance of Roderick Williams' 3 Songs from Ethiopia Boy, as part of Chineke! Orchestra's 10th anniversary celebration at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 24 Jan 2025, also repeated on BBC Radio 3 (details on News page)
More Wheatsheaf & The Ship poetry events, featuring Malika Booker, Jane Duran, John McAuliffe, Caroline Maldonado, Alex
Wong, Bill Herbert, Fiona Moore, Richard Price, Tom Bailey, Chris Timmins & Andrew Dennison.
Chris' poems Zerihun and Mebrat's fear in Tears in the Fence 82.
2024: Wheatsheaf Poetry: a new reading series curated by Chris Beckett & Isao Miura, including performances so far by Hannah
Lowe, Mimi Khalvati, Jacqueline Saphra, Keith Jarrett, Eric Yip, James Womack, Paul Stephenson, Phoebe Stuckes, Jo Roach,
Robert Seatter, Tristram Fane Saunders, Astrid Alben and Patrick Romero McCafferty
Poem Bob & Moses in Ink Sweat & Tears
2023: Poems in Magma 87 Islands
Library of Congress, Washington DC: Discussion event about Songs We Learn from Trees
2022: Poems & Translations in PN Review & The North 68
Poetry School course: Transreading Ethiopia
Songs We Learn from Trees: the UK Tour, including 6 Ethiopian poets and performances in London, Leeds, Manchester and
Oxford
2021: Poems & Translations in Bad Lilies & MPT
Review of Ann Ryland's latest collection in Dog House Review
First chapter of Abebe, the cook's son published in Hinterland (the best creative non-fiction)
Songs We Learn from Trees shortlisted for Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry
Words Without Borders: interview with Linda Johannes about Ethiopian poetry scene
Poetry School course: Childhood, a source of Praise
Poetry in Aldeburgh reading: Contemporary Ethiopian Poetry with Chris Beckett, Mihret Kebede, Misrak Terefe, Bedilu Wakjira
& Kebedech Tekleab
2020: Publish: Tenderfoot (Carcanet)
Publish: Songs We Learn from Trees (Carcanet)
BBC Radio 4 Front Row with Chris Beckett & Alemu Tebeje
Podcast about Tenderfoot with Niall Munro, Oxford Brookes at OBU Poetry Centre
Podcast about Tenderfoot with Emma Carmichael from Travelling Through
2019: Roderick Williams and the Chineke! Orchestra perform Three Songs from Ethiopia Boy at Queen Elizabeth Hall and Hull City
Hall and on BBC Radio 3
2018: Exhibition at APT Gallery Deptford: Travels in a Paper Coat, inspired by Matsuo Basho's The Narrow Road to the Deep North:
a multi-media exhibition with artist Isao Miura, filmmaker Nikolai Azariah & poet Chris Beckett.