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My first collection, Don’t Ask, is out with Eyewear Publishing. You can buy it here.

Here is a selection of published work. Click on a title to read the poem.

• Alphabetic order was published in Rascal, September 2018 (text and audio file, read by me).
• Liminal was longlisted in Live Canon’s 2018 Competition, and will be included in their 2018 anthology.
• Watching the Perseids and Grave robbing were published in the October 2016 issue of Poetry Magazine.
• The apiarist is included in Eyewear Publishing‘s Best New British & Irish Poets anthology published May 2016.
• Cecilia Speaks is the title poem of a song cycle by Ian Stephens, who set three of my poems for unaccompanied choir. First performance in London, November 2015.
• Flying South has also been set by Ian Stephens as a piece for Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir.
• Boys in the storm (published in 2015 by Live Canon, shortlisted in the Live Canon International Competition)
• Confession of a worn-out god was published in June 2015 on Ground.org, an online poetry site exploring faith and doubt
• The truth about political correctness was performed by Live Canon in their Election Special, May 2015
• Idaho (shortlisted in the 2014 Charles Causley competition, judged by Kathryn Simmonds – results published Jan 2015)
• In my end is my beginning won Faber Academy’s quickfic competition in November 2014, and will be published in a forthcoming anthology from Vanguard Editions in 2016.
• Leaving Tracks was published in Nine Arches Press’ Under the Radar Issue 14, distributed January 2015
• John’s Curious Machines won the 2014 Cardiff International Poetry Competition, judged by Lemn Sissay and Rhian Edwards. Published in New Welsh Review Issue 105.
• The Voyage was included in For Books’ Sake Furies anthology, published in October 2014.
• A collection of my poems was long listed in The New Writer 2014 competition, judged by Helen Mort.
• Ceci n’est pas une pipe (shortlisted in the 2013 Charles Causley Competition, judged by Sir Andrew Motion)
• Hunting Pi (published 2013 by Synaesthesia Magazine)
• The cost of living (published 2013 by Live Canon, shortlisted in Live Canon International Poetry Competition judged by Glyn Maxwell)
• Now is the writer (published in Festival of Writing anthology, 2013)
• 3 Haikus  (published February 2013 by Live Canon)
• Poem for Spray Painted Bananas, a serialised novel by Emily Benet (published February 2013)
• Love in reverse (published 2012 by Mslexia)
• The Equinox Separation (published 2012 by Live Canon, shortlisted in Live Canon International Poetry Competition judged by Antony Dunn)
• The Word Harvest (published 2005 by Poetry Wales)
• Memento Mori (first published 2005 by Mslexia, Commended in their competition judged by Jo Shapcott)
• Local Colour (published 2002 by Mslexia)
• The Train Poem (not strictly speaking published, but read at Troubadour open-mic session Nov 2012. More self-audio-published.)