Publications
Absence, Cheerio, February 2024.
Hotel, Verve Poetry Press, March 2020.
Magazines and Journals
The London Magazine, forthcoming: Sports Day (Short fiction)
The Yorkshire Times, March 2024: ‘An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump’
The Telegraph, 3 February 2024: ‘Free Will’
The London Magazine, February / March 2024: Last Meal; The Body Politic
The TLS: Deposition, September 2022
Poetry London, Issue 102: The Touch
The Moth, Issue 49: Crop
Oxford Poetry, Issue 93: Strobe; Leisure on a Red Background
Anthropocene: Washing with a Plastic Milk-Bottle in the Nameless Stream; Quadrat; The Mackerel Past
The London Magazine, June / July 2021: Living without Moon; The Great Disappointment
The London Magazine, April / May 2021: Fluff (Short fiction)
The New Statesman, 19 Feb 2021: Repair is a Failing Trade
PN Review, Issue 257: Giants; Rain; Art
Wild Court, 14 July 2020: Last
The London Magazine, June 2020; Buridan’s Ass; Lethe
Oxford Brookes’ Poetry Centre Weekly Poem, 2 April 2020: The Englishman
Poetry Birmingham, Issue 3: S & M; Test Scenario
Poetry Ireland Review, Issue 126: Love Poem to your Self-Sufficiency
The Dark Horse, Spring/Summer 2018: Encyclopaedia Brittanica; Sonnet
The Scores, Issue 4: The Past
Ambit, Issue 232: Putting the World Away; Expanding Universe
Textual Practice, Vol. 32, Issue 2: Sponge; Shower
The Rialto, Issue 88: Song for a New Home; The Sand King
The Poetry Review, Autumn 2016: Swallow; Short Shirt
Magma, Risk Edition: Typhoon Lagoon
BrittleStar, Issue 37: House Plant
Anthologies
Prototype II (Prototype): ‘Break-up Poem for Half-Homeland’; ‘Yes, I’m a Failure. Born with a Wooden Spoon in my Mouth’.
Best New British and Irish Poets (Eyewear Books): Ab(so)lution
bodies declare themselves (Poetry Book Society): pressure
Mildly Erotic Verse (The Emma Press): photographs from our holiday in bed
154: Contemporary Poets Respond to Shakespeare (Live Canon): Censer
Asterism (Laudanum): Full Stop
New Poems for Christmas (Live Canon): Mittens
Mixed Borders II (Poetry School Campus Pamphlet): Protected Views; Hold.
Online
Ink, Sweat and Tears: photographs from our holiday in bed
The Stare’s Nest: Believe You Can and You’re Halfway There
The Cadaverine: Contact; I Also Speak of the Slim Cormorant’s Grace; Bluebottle
Awards
Eric Gregory Award, 2018
Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry (Highly Commended, 2022)
Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Prize (Highly Commended), 2021)
Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition (Shortlist), 2020
AHRC Northern Bridge PhD Studentship, 2019
Pat Kavanagh Prize (Shortlist), 2018
Ivan Juritz Prize (Shortlist), 2017
Jane Martin Prize (Shortlist), 2017
PBS National Student Poetry Competition (Highly Commended), 2016
John Dunn Award, 2012
Lady Clare Precious Pearl Prize, 2012
Collaborations
Thunder clears, 2023: A poem set for solo voice by Héloïse Werner. Commissioned by Wigmore Hall. Premiere: 2 March 2024, Wigmore Hall.
Exodus, 2023: A poem set to music by Héloïse Werner and performed by Lila Chrisp (mezzo) and Colin Alexander (Cello). Commissioned by Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft. Premiere: 13 October 2023, Ludwigshafen.
Sable and Snow, 2022: A collaboration with Héloïse and Emma Werner for Maîtrise de Radio France.
Like Words, 2022: A poem, set to music by Héloïse Werner and performed by Werner and Amy Harman. Premiere 2022, Wigmore Hall. Available on Phrases (Delphian Records, 2022).
Isolation Songbook, 2021: A poem, ‘The Orange Vendor’, set by composer Héloïse Werner and performed by Helen Charlston and Michael Craddock. Premiere 2021, St Pancras Tower. Available on Isolation Songbook (Delphian Records, 2021).
Familiar Objects, 2016: A sequence of 12 poems set to semi-improvised music by contemporary classical quartet The Hermes Experiment
Editorial
Poetry London, former: Associate Editor
Poetry School, former: Editorial Manager
Butcher’s Dog, Issue 11: Co-editor
Asterism (Laudanum): Assistant Editor
Judging Panels
Creative Future Awards 2018 and 2019: Guest judge
Primers Mentoring and Publication Scheme 2017: First stage judge / sifter
Teaching
Poetry School: Tutor for ‘The Earthly Runs to a Stop: Endings as Practice and Subject’, 2023
City Lit: Tutor for Ways into Poetry and Ways into Poetry (Intensive), 2023
Durham University: Teaching Assistant, teaching tutorials on ‘Introduction to Poetry’: 2020 - 2023
City Lit: Tutor for ‘Writing Sonnets’, February 2020
Poetry in Aldeburgh: Tutor for ‘All Work and All Play’, November 2020
Poetry School: Tutor for ‘Stealing, Copying, Arguing’, November 2020.
Poetry School: Tutor for ‘Write Ahead’ workshops for people new to poetry.