Author Archives: danny

2025

MagmaRabbit in a drystone wall
The Book of Bogs (Little Toller)The Dog Star Quartet
Moor music
Gytrash
Fragments
A candle at the doorway
Nature Matters (Faber)Pansies
Ten Poems about Weeds (Candlestick Press)Mouse-ear

2024

The Poetry Review (Autumn)Elder
Poetry London (Summer)Emily’s tree
GRAVY zineEarthworm on tarmac, Pinch, What is that smoke?
I can’t light the fire
Fyne Times (January)touch-me-not
Fyne Times (June)Return of the discotheque dancers
No net ensnares

2024

No Net Ensnares Me
(Brontë-themed prose poetry anthology)Calder Valley Poetry
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2023

The Rialto (100)desire
Perspective MagazineThere’s a walrus on my windscreen
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The Halifax DirectoryTormentil (Poem of the Month)
WHERE ELSE: An International Hong Kong Poetry AnthologyBabysitting in Ho Man Tin (Verve)
Mapping the Future –

2022

The Poetry Review (Winter)                                                 the grasshopper warbler’s song

Poetry London (Summer)                                                     Wasp in a jam jar

100 Queer Poems (Vintage)                                                 touch-me-not

After Sylvia (Nine Arches)                                                    shadow shifter

Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal                                  3 poems

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Creative Writing: A Workbook with 
Poetry Prize

Poetry Prize

Ian’s second collection, Tormentil, due from Nine Arches Press in September 2023, has won a Royal Society of Literature ‘Literature Matters’ Award while in progress.…

BBC Commission

BBC Commission

Ian is working on a new poem and short film in collaboration with Ascension Dance Company to debut at the BBC’s Contains Strong Language Festival in September. He has also been appointed a festival poet at Contains Strong Language which …

Sylvia Plath book

Sylvia Plath book

Ian has won an Arts Council England Lottery Funded Project Grant to produce an anthology of poems and essays in response to the legacy of Sylvia Plath. He will co-edit the book, which will be published by Nine Arches Press, …

Poetry Prize

Poetry Prize

Ian’s second collection, Tormentil, due from Nine Arches Press in September 2023, has won a Royal Society of Literature ‘Literature Matters’ Award while in progress.…