Writing

Books and pamphlets

Michael, Broken Sleep Books (December 2022)

the rafters were still burning, Dancing Girl Press (2021)

the love i do to you, Eyewear Publishing (2019)

Forthcoming and recently published poems

White Gloves/Totem Pole‘, Verve Poetry Press, October 2025 (shortlisted for Poem of the Month)

‘St Anne’s Square’Ink, Sweat and Tears, May 2025

‘New Years Eve, Kyoto, 2008’ shortlisted for the Free Verse Prize 2025

My Body is a House Where I Still Love You’, Magma, 91 ‘In the Flesh’

Searching for my fatheran adaptation of poems from my forthcoming collection Viaduct sung by Izy Stearn, composed by Rhodri Williams-Wandoch

 ‘Hunger‘ (Highly Commended), Oxford Poetry Library ‘Taste’ Poetry Prize 2024,

Brother‘ (Highly Commended), Mist and Mountain International Poetry Prize 2024

 Aquarium‘ (Highly Commended), Manchester Cathedral Poetry Prize 2023,

‘3 Poems’, Anthropocene

 Mapwork‘, ‘Poem of the Month’, Mist and Mountain International 

Extracts from Michael’, Broken Sleep Books Anthology 2022, Broken Sleep Press 

 Tarot/Death‘, At Length Magazine

 ‘Iceland‘ (Highly Commended, Forest Poets Poetry Competition)

‘Ghost Wood’ (Fourth Place Winner, Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize 2021) The Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize Anthology 2021

‘Viaduct’ (Highly Commended, The Poetry Book Society Student Poetry Prize), The Poetry Book Society

‘The Piano’ (Highly Commended, The Artlyst Art to Poetry Prize) The Poetry Society

‘History Lessons’   The Oxford Review of Books

The Tuna Auction (shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2022) 

‘Viaduct’, Aesthetica Journal of Creative Writing

Poetry Birmingham Review: ‘Four Deaths’ and ‘Fossils’ 

Stand Magazine: ‘Mother’ and ‘Information Point’ 

The Tangerine: ‘Hefted’

Anthropocene, ‘Tsukiji Market’ and ‘Wound’ 

The Interpreter’s House 71: ‘House of Light’

Spelt Magazine, ‘Spell for Lockdown‘ (Highly Commended in the Spelt Poetry Prize)

Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency (Valley Press), ‘Geography Lessons’ 

‘A Homerton Wood’, a digital poem co-written by staff and students of Homerton College, The University of Cambridge

iamb poetry: ‘Hefted’, ‘In the Archive’ and ‘The Coach Station’

9 West Road: The English Faculty Journal, The University of Cambridge: ‘Prayer’

Best New British and Irish Poets 2018: ‘Hefted’

Streetcake Magazine: ‘Ashes’

perhappened mag: ‘Fox Studies’

On Commemoration: ‘In the Archive’ 

The Oxonian Review: Three Poems

Slippage Lit: ‘rip’

Oxford Indie Book Fair Magazine, Issue 3: ‘Zoom Class’

The Irish Literary Review: ‘Fishing’

A Change of Climate: ‘Geography Lessons’

Academic and Critical

‘Goodbye to bath magg‘, Poetry News, October 2024

‘Creative Afterlives: Using a Family Archive to Prompt Creative Work’, Writing in Education, 2019

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