THIS ALL FEELS LIKE AN ARCHIVE NOW - A VANITY/PROFESSIONAL THING TO SAY LOOK I WAS A POET ONCE TOO
Published work
Click to read 'Thrown', 'Monument', and 'Nothing metaphysical about needing to be loved' (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize) - all published in Anthropocene under old version of family name
Click the poem to read in full at Adjacent Pineapple, Issue 5
Click the poem to read in full at Adjacent Pineapple, Issue 5
Poem published in The Moth,
Issue 30
Autumn 2017 (only available in print)
'That’s a proper poem for you /
agony to bring up, /
with real carrots in it'
-- Review in The Scores, Spring 2017
'The trees /
as if dust was being beaten from a rug /
shake out their birds and in again' --
Review in The Scores, Spring 2017
We should be prescribed an Ali Smith a week these days -- Review in The Wee Review, December 2017
'For a week I was also at university /
a bigger place than school with bigger /
chairs and desks… ' -- Review in The Scores, Autumn 2017
It’s testament to the vitality of Lee’s verse that her message doesn’t feel hollow. -- Review in The Wee Review, June 2018
I,I,I 2018 - Unpublished pamphlets
Anna & James - 2020 commission
A friend asked me to write poems with her to help her understand an important relationship in her life. We had phone conversations over the course of several weeks (during lockdown) and I wrote these poems off the back of them. Of course it's a fictionalisation and there is as much of my life in there as there is of anyone else's. She gave me permission to share them. If this process interests you then I'd be happy to do it again. Just get in touch.