POETRY & PUBLICATIONS
Poetry collections Ulterior Atmospheres published by Live Canon A selection of poems published online: 'Inside Chemical Corridor' published in Rust & Moth 'She Sees Sea Snakes on the Seashore' published in Moss Puppy Magazine 'La Spezia' published in Willawaw Journal 'Crypto Wiretap Intercepts' published in pioneertown 'Ocean Stillness Luring' published in the tide rises, the tide falls 'Annual Honesty' in Thimble Literary Magazine 'Milk Me the Glands of the Mulga King' and 'Cottonmouth Pastoral' in Apricot Press 'Grazing Horse Confessional' in Fauxmoir 'The Next World Jolt: a Predictive Testimony' in Red Door 'Degrees of Grit and Retrospection in LS1' in The Broken Spine 'Agent is Typing...' in Acumen 'A Dawn Wander in Modern Living' in The Shore 'Fer-de-Lance Trafficker' in Pedestal Magazine 'Hypnagogic Road Trip' in The Alchemy Spoon 'Unwrap My Hands' and 'Sauna Born' in The Lake 'A Delicacy of Adder' in Atticus Review 'Museo di Giallo', 'The Excision Room' and 'The Anti Cookie Pusher' in Menacing Hedge 'The Skinny on the Stiff' in Cordite Poetry Review 'Desolation Medicine' at Poetryschool.com 'The Railway Children' in qaartsiluni 'About the Author' in Snakeskin 'Cartography' in Equinox 'Crooked Dice' in Umbrella Anthologised poems: 'A Barrel for My Body and a Hare for My Head' in The Plaza Prizes Anthology 2 'On Nostalgia for the Twilight of Cigarette Advertising in Print' in Crabbe Poetry Competition 2024 'The Penetration of Built-Up Areas by Aerosols at Night' in Crabbe Poetry Competition Anthology 2023 (Suffolk Poetry Society) 'Coot Club Clan' in Birdbook 2: Freshwater Habitats (Sidekick Books) 'Target: Renegade' in Coin Opera 2 (Sidekick Books) 'Bear #141' in Lives Beyond Us (Sidekick Books) 'The Man from Cooma' in The Best New British and Irish Poets 2017 (Eyewear Publishing) 'International Trunk Call' in Live Canon 2017 Anthology (Live Canon) 'Folk Choir Ominous' in Live Canon 2018 Anthology (Live Canon) 'Waylay of a Lifetime' in The Emma Press Anthology of Love (The Emma Press) Competitions and prizes: 'On Nostalgia for the Twilight of Cigarette Advertising in Print' - 2nd prize in the George Crabbe Poetry Competition 2024 'The Since Demolished Me' - Commended in the Southport Writers' Circle Poetry Competition 2024 'A Barrel for My Body and a Hare for My Head' - Shortlisted for The Plaza Poetry Prize (60 lines max) Highly Commended in the Slipstream Poets Competition 2024 Shortlisted for the 2023 Hastings Book Festival Poetry Competition 'The Penetration of Built-Up Areas by Aerosols at Night' - Commended in the George Crabbe Poetry Competition 2023 Shortlisted for Spelt Magazine Poetry Competition 2022 'Almanac for Sunless Haunts' – 1st prize in the South Downs Poetry Festival Competition 2022 'Breckland Flint' – 3rd prize in the Wells Festival of Literature 2021 Open Poetry Competition 'Skip Paints the President's Wounds' – Highly Commended in Acumen International Poetry Competition 2021 Longlisted for The Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2020 Ulterior Atmospheres – Live Canon Collection Competition 2020 winner 'Black Mamba Economics' – 1st prize in Café Writers Competition 2018 Shortlisted for Primers mentoring scheme in association with Nine Arches Press 2016-17 Longlisted for Primers mentoring scheme in association with Nine Arches Press 2015-16 |
A selection of poems in print journals:
'The Sorrel Reapers' in The Alchemy Spoon 'Icebreakers' and 'Tide Clocks in Different Times' in Anon 'Soixante-Dix Huitards' and 'The Nonentities' in Assent 'Inland Taipan Country Roamers' in Deep Wild Journal 'A Pea Coat' in The Fenland Reed 'Churchill's Funeral: What the Psychic Saw' in The Interpreter’s House 'Illusionists are Carers First' and 'Pour Femme' in Iota 'Beverley Silverskins' in Lighthouse 'Ringwalk' in Magma 'Perish the Thought' and 'Giving Up the Wurst Shtick' in Mimesis 'The Interstices' in Obsessed with Pipework 'Drowned Doll by the Herons', 'Seahorse Stallion' and 'Olympus Camera Rupture' in Orbis 'The Wreck Dive' in Poetry Salzburg Review 'Of Fire and Memory Work' in South 'Consumption Makes the Words Count', 'Cutpurse on Leather Lane' and 'Hymn to the Needle' in South Bank Poetry 'Lines from a Lost Location Scout' and 'The Halcyon Days of House' in Tears in the Fence 'A Charitable Mistress' and '2AM Dyspeptic' in Trespass 'The Raid', 'The Water Babies' and 'Play Havoc' in Under the Radar Prose: 'Amsterdam Winklepicker Moon' in Amsterdam Quarterly 'The Opaque Detachment' in Shotgun Honey 'A Fetish for Flint' in Spelt Magazine |