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I have published a poetry pamphlet Echolocation and poetry collection Empires of Clay and written a one act show Corseted.

Magazines, anthologies, and web publications

  • 2024
    • ‘Post Office Bay, Ulva Island, Nature Sound Map’; ‘Moving Wood at Meltham’; ‘Making an Exhibition of Myself’; ‘This Time Around’ and ‘Becomings’ published in erbacce, Journals: 76/77
  • 2023
    • ‘This Time Around’, a poem published in Seconds, A Poetry Anthology from Rhubarb at The Triangle
    • Poems ‘Making an Exhibition of Myself’ and ‘Breach’ published in InDivisible anthology
  • 2022
    • ‘Body in the Underworld’ poem commended by Yaffle and published in Whirlagust III
    • ‘The Question Marks of your Birth’ published in Duff
  • 2021
    • Poems ‘Sundial in Glorious Pestilence of Clover Mites Coming Up Through Cracks’ and ‘The Legacy of Alice Cliff Scatcherd’ published on the Sentinel Literary Quarterly website in video and text format
    • Poem ‘What is it like to be a bat?’ published in the Ver Poets Anthology – Read more
    • Poem ‘The Chorus that Dawn was a Solitary Blackbird’ published in Whirlagust II by Yaffle – Read more
    • Poem ‘Adel Woods’ published in At Home in Our City – Read more
    • Poem ‘Reduced Ovarian Reserve’ published in Bloody Amazing, eds. Gill Lambert and Rebecca Bilkau – Read more
  • 2020
    • Poem ‘Morality Tale’ published on Celebrating Change and in And the Stones Fell Open, ed. Ian Harker
    • Poem ‘Christina Tissues a Script or what my Otter App Misheard’ published at TEXT Journal of Writing and Writing Courses – Read more
  • 2019
    • Short story ‘Fossils’ published in The Forgotten and The Fantastical 5 by Mother’s Milk, ed. Teika Bellamy – Read more
    • Poem ‘Worthing’ published in Coast to Coast to Coast Special Aldeburgh edition, ed. Maria Isakova Bennett – Read more
    • Poem ‘The Flayed Fish’ published in The Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry, eds. Anne Caldwell and Oz Hardwick – Read more
    • Poem ‘Paradise’ published on Places of Poetry map (look for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park) – Read more
    • Poem ‘Even the Dust could Crush him’ published in Coast to Coast to Coast Issue 6, ed. Maria Isakova Bennett – Read more
    • Poem ‘Becomings’ published in Stand 223: Ecopoetics, ed. Vahni Capildeo – Read more
    • ‘Surprise of Barn Owl’ published on the Poetry Book Society website – Read more
  • 2018
    • ‘The Game’ and ‘Trench Foot 2017’ published in ‘Women Write Now Reading The Contemporary’, Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings Vol 18, No 1, 2018, ed. Shirley Chew and Lucy Arnold – Read more
    • ‘The Cosmologist’ published by Indigo Dreams in Mythologies: A Space For Words, ed. Alexa Russell, Kate Kennedy and Amina Alyal – Read more
    • ‘Pictures of Sarah’ published in Other Voices: 40 years of The Cure, ed Andie Berryman and Ali Jones – Read more
    • ‘Meteor Shower’ published in Until The Stars Burn Out, ed. Maya Horton – Read more
    • ‘Home Fires’, ‘Brunswick Tunnel, Harrogate’ and ‘Marsden, After The Flood’ published in The North, Issue 60, August 2018, ed. Peter and Ann Sansom – Read more
    • ‘Cycle’ published in a series of hospital poems on John Foggins’ blog – Read more
  • 2017
    • Poems and vignettes series ‘Maps’ in Anthology: A Circa Works collection published by Circa Works, eds. James Garside and N.J. Ramsden – Read more
    • ‘The Foster Mother’s Blanket’ published in Seren’s Writing Motherhood – A Creative Anthology, ed. Carolyn Jess Cooke – Read more
    • ‘Christchurch Ilkley’ published in The Valley Press Anthology Of Yorkshire Poetry, ed. Miles Salter and Oz Hardwick – Read more
  • 2016
    • Beam commission Our Treasures – bespoke poems written for Altofts Festival In A Day in conjunction with the Altofts community is available on audio or PDF with an accompanying map so you can follow the trail yourself
    • ‘Vaginal Repair’ and ‘Meteor Shower’ published in Wordlife Anthology – Read more
    • ‘Urbanite’ published in Eyewear’s The Best New British and Irish Poets 2016 – Read more
    • ‘Hypermnestra’s Tale’ in Journeys: A Space For Words published by Wordspace in partnership with Leeds Trinity University, ed. Lucy Brighton and Stephanie Buick – Read more
  • 2015
    • ‘Wolves’ published by Bloodaxe in their Raving Beauties Anthology, Hallelujah For Fifty Feet Women – Read more
    • ‘The Basement’ published in New Walk Issue 10, ed. Rory Waterman – Read more
    • ‘Secondary School Art’ published in Blueshift, Book of Sand project, ed. Karen Dennison – Read more
    • ‘Pillion’ published with A Firm of Poets in The People’s Republic of Poetry, ed. The Ossett Observer – Read more
    • ‘Eucharist’ published at Voice In Journal – Read more
    • ‘Christchurch Ilkley’ published in Envoi Issue 170, ed. Kay Syrad – Read more
    • ‘Chlorine Attack, Idlib’ in Beautiful Dragons anthology My Dear Watson , ed. Rebecca Bilkau – Read more
    • ‘Austerity’ published at Well Versed and in Berfrois’ free-to-download Poets For Corbyn.  Translated by Francesca Spinelli for Internazionale 1123, 9.10.15
    • Poem ‘Our Harrogate’ and ‘Crashing The Party’, an extract from Yellow Brick Roads published in anthology Haunt, produced by Imove.  The project was shortlisted by The Saboteur Awards 2016 – Read more
  • 2014
    • Poems ‘Shadow’ and ‘Namesake’ published on Carolyn Jess-Cooke’s 7 day blog about depression – Read more
    • Poem ‘The Secret of Perfect Wine’ published in Heavenly Bodies, an anthology about the constellations by Beautiful Dragons, ed. Rebecca Bilkau – Read more
    • Poem ‘Lullabies’ published on Carolyn Jess-Cooke’s guest spot Writing Motherhood for the Mslexia blog – Read more
    • Grief flash fiction trilogy published in book of adult fairy tales, The Forgotten and The Fantastical by Mother’s Milk, ed. Teika Bellamy – Read more
    • Extract of ‘Namesake’ published in One that Won section of Mslexia Issue 61 – Read more
    • ‘Urchin’ commended in Mother’s Milk Books Writing Prize 2014 and published in The Story of Us, ed. Teika Bellamy – Read more
  • 2013
    • Poems ‘That Room’ and ‘Paisley Quilt’ published as part of the award-winning Against Rape campaign – Read more
    • Poems ‘Eucharist’ and ‘That Room’ published in ‘Versions of the North – Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry’ ed. Ian Parks and published by Five Leaves
      Publications – Read more
  • 2012
    • Poems ‘Building Castles’, ‘Every Bone’ and ‘Wolves’ published in Seven Wanders and Beyond – Read more
  • 2011
    • Poem ‘Behind His Eye’ shortlisted for Grist competition and poems ‘Behind His Eye’ and ‘Every Bone’ published in the anthology ‘A Complicated Way of Being Ignored’ – Read more
  • 2010
    • Poems ‘Wolves’ and ‘Paisley Quilt’ published by Michelle McGrane at Peony Moon – Read more