Join me for our upcoming close reading sessions, all on Sundays, 2-4pm GMT via Zoom. This winter we will be repeating our sold-out Keats class, exploring some winter poems and getting to grips with Emily Dickinson’s dashes.

links to book:

KEATS:https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/keats

WINTER POEMS:https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/winter

EMILY DICKINSON:https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/emily-dickinson/p/book

My poem ‘Totem Pole/White Gloves’ was shortlisted for the Verve Poetry Press October Poem of the Month. You can read all the shortlisted poems here: https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/october-poems-of-the-month

The most amazing review of my book Michael just came out in The Broken Spine.

It is so rare to have a full review devoted to a single book of poetry and I am so grateful to Alan for taking the time to so deeply understand my weird little collection.

You can, of course, buy Michael direct from Broken Sleep Books.

In 2017, a terrorist detonated a bomb in Manchester Arena at an Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 and injuring 1017 people. I was living in Manchester and wrote this poem a few years later about the experience of public mourning and memorial that happened in the aftermath as Mancunians came together in St Anne’s Square to remember the dead and injured, many of them young girls.

The poem is about the insufficiency of language to mark such a horror.

Heard this morning that my poem ‘New Years Eve, Kyoto, 2008’ was shortlisted for the Free Verse Prize 2025 – not bad considering they received 14,000 poems!

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Heartening to have a new poem forthcoming in Magma 91, ‘In the Flesh’. They will be publishing my poem ‘My Body is a House Where I Still Love You’.

https://magmapoetry.com/

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