Publications
Marble Poetry (Issue 1) – July 2018: ‘Speak Up’
The Interpreter’s House (Issue 68) – June 2018: ‘Emile Fed Them Books’
‘#2PoetryAnthology’ (Vanguard Editions, 2016) – October 2016: ‘It doesn’t matter if I’m a clown’
The Everyday Poet (An anthology edited by Deborah Alma – The Emergency Poet) – October 2016: ‘Inefficient view of a happy man’
The Fat Damsel’s Thinking Man (August 2016) – ‘Beauty and the Beast’, ‘Question’, ‘School Gates’, ‘The Rally’, ‘When I heard it’, ‘Snakes Alive’, ‘witchbundle’.
Don’t be Afraid – An anthology in appreciation of Seamus Heaney (Lapwing Press 2016): ‘Verbal Aridity’
And Other Poems: ‘silent summer’
New Welsh Reader (previously New Welsh Review) Issue 111: ‘The Judge’
Wenlock Poetry Festival Anthology 2016: ‘Boy in Blue’
Ink Sweat & Tears: ‘Through a Lens’
Nutshells and Nuggets: ‘Inefficient view of a happy man’, ‘Picked like a lime’
Manchester Metropolitan University (Anthology, A New Manchester Alphabet ): ‘M for Music’
Poetry School: ‘witchbundle’ (plus ‘How I did it’ article)
Wenlock Poetry Festival: ‘Forswunken’
The Lonely Crowd: ‘Prey’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’
Poetry Book Society (“I am part of that generation”: Poems from the 2014 PBS National Student Poetry Competition): ‘It doesn’t matter if I’m a clown’
Rebel Poetry Ireland (Anthology – Fathers and what must be said): ‘School Gates’
Royal Philharmonic Society (Did I hear that?): ‘The Rally’
Acumen (80): ‘Spore’
Shrewsbury Stanza Anthology: ‘Bench’, ‘Splinters’
Wenlock Poetry Festival Poetry Trail: ‘Bench’
Poems for Children’s Heart Week: ‘Hush’
Prole (Issue 14): ‘Outside the corner chippy’
The Interpreter’s House (Issue #56): ‘Butternut‘, ‘Snakes Alive‘
Bare Fiction Magazine: Review & interview with Dan O’Brien on poetry, theatre and War Reporter
Awards
Poetry Book Society (2014 PBS National Student Poetry Competition, Highly Commended): ‘It doesn’t matter if I’m a clown’
Judge’s comment: Jane Yeh
“I admire the effortless-seeming verve and freshness of this piece: the contemporary, conversational voice and rush of phrases breathe life into the depiction of a fraught relationship. This is a highly accomplished and compelling poem that displays a spirited imagination at play.”