2024
| No Net Ensnares Me | |
| (Brontë-themed prose poetry anthology) | Calder Valley Poetry |
| – Editor | |
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Publications
Books
2023
| Tormentil | (September 2023, Nine Arches Press) |
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2022
| After Sylvia (Sylvia Plath anthology) | |
| – Producer, co-editor and creative lead | Nine Arches Press |
| After Sylvia website | |
| Read Guardian review | |
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2021
| Why I Write Poetry – Editor | Nine Arches Press Buy book |
| Butcher’s Dog Issue 15 – Co-editor (with Jo Clement) |
2019
| Zebra | Nine Arches Press, 2019 Buy book |
Poems
2024
| The Poetry Review (Autumn) | Elder |
| Poetry London (Summer) | Emily’s tree |
| GRAVY zine | Earthworm 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 me | Emily’s tree |
| Brontë Gazette | Firecrest |
| Bronski Beat zine | Wasp in a jam jar |
| Brontë Parsonage Museum Poetry Audio Trail – spring & summer |
5 new poems written during my residency |
2023
| The Rialto (100) | desire |
| Perspective Magazine | There’s a walrus on my windscreen |
| Read poem | |
| The Halifax Directory | Tormentil (Poem of the Month) |
| WHERE ELSE: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology | Babysitting in Ho Man Tin (Verve) |
| Mapping the Future – The Complete Works Poets | 5 poems (Bloodaxe) |
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 Read poems Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings (Open University’s creative writing degree course book) Routledge, 2nd Ed. Treading Water Read poem and review
The Dark Horse Wall Town The Caterpillar (Autumn) At the Halloween party Bad Lilies Rope-grown mussels & Mouse-ear Hawkweed Tyger Tyger The boy who ate the sky Read poem Quiet Man Dave Prize (Finalist) Whose Story? Read now The Caterpillar (Spring) The Girl Who Slept Through Seasons
2021
The Rialto (96) The wood warbler’s song
Matter 20 Scrimshander
Sheffield Hallam University The other lot
Guest writer On spilling a jug of Mai Tai
BBC Contains Strong Language Swifts and the awakening city
Commission
Russia’s first international Return of the discotheque dancers
HIV & AIDS poetry anthology London, 1997; Hong Kong, 1995
(translation)
2020
The Rialto (94) Darkwater
The Poetry Society Treading water
West Yorkshire Queer Stories A thousand crossings
Like a record, baby]
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Seeing the light
Prayer for the fabulous ones
Under the Radar There’s a walrus on my windscreen
Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre Canal Street, 1984
Green Fields (Maytree Press) Return of the discotheque dancers
The Simple Things Glamour Puss
Poetry Health Service There’s a me-shaped hole in your favourite T-shirt
The Yorkshire Times Treading water
Poem of the Week Read review
The Lancashire Times Treading water
Poem of the Week
Chimeo Treading water
Poem of the Week
2019
The Poetry Review (109/2/Summer) Slim
The Simple Things (August) Two Men Walking
Contemporary Poetry from
the United Kingdom
(Platypus Press, 2019) Bare Branch
Butcher’s Dog (11) rubber pup at the queer rights in Chechnya rally
Magma (73) Darklight
2018
The Rialto (91) Poetasters’ Cant
The Cottage
The Caterpillar (23) Sensible Shoes
The Forward Book of Poetry 2019 Return of the discotheque dancers Read Poem
Smoke Apple
Nine Lives (anthology) Into the frying pan
Some rules on villanelles
Coalscar Lake
The ‘C’ Word (anthology – Poets Stubborn cow
Supporting the fight against cancer) Great Aunt Rosalind
Pratik Back to where we came from
Old Yorkshire cobbles
Some Cannot Be Caught: Zebra on East 55th and 3rd
The Emma Press Book of Beasts
2017
The Poetry Review (107/4/Winter) Bare Branch
The Poetry Review (107/4/Winter) touch-me-not
Ten: Poets of the New Generation (Bloodaxe) The Man in the Rah-Rah Skirt
The Mind Gap
Skye and Sea
Zebra on East 55th and 3rd Read Poem
London, 1997, Hong Kong, 1995
Dragged Under Read Poem and Review
Magma (69) Break My Bones
The Rialto (89) Return of the Discotheque Dancers
And Other Poems High Society Read Poem
Butcher’s Dog Great Aunt Rosalind
The New European How to Build a Post-truth Wall Read Poem
2016
The Rialto (87) Dragged Under Read Poem and Review
The Rialto (86) Stubborn Cow Read Poem
Prole Pants on Fire
Avis Children of the Moon
Ink Sweat & Tears breathless
tree stone sky stream (anthology –
University of Macau and
Malmö University collaboration) The Burning Tree
Watermarks (anthology) Nora and the Flood