Poems, essays and reviews

POEMS

‘Highlights of the Yorkshire Branch of Butterfly Conservation’s Members’ Day’, published in Atrium, here.

‘The Rupert Man’, published in Bad Lilies, here.

‘Half Board at the Alum Sands Hotel’, published in The Beach Hut, here.

‘Butterflies of Vermont’ and ‘Caesarean’, published in Black Nore Review, here.

‘The Sidecar’, published at British Life in Poetry, here.

‘Pathé News Visits the Ace of Spades’, published in The Friday Poem, here.

‘The Walrus Club’, published in The Honest Ulsterman, here.

‘The Semi-Fast Service to 1969’, published in Ink, Sweat & Tears, here.

‘Half Board at the Alum Sands Hotel Again’, published in London Grip, here.

‘The Nitpickers’ and ‘The Blue Coast Blues’, published in Mediterranean Poetry, here.

‘Headgear’, published in The Wardrobe, here.

‘The Last Corinthians’ and ‘Meeting the Prince’, published in Wild Court, here.

‘Swallowing the Toad’, published at Words for the Wild, here.


ESSAYS

‘Compassion in strange places: the life and poetry of Patricia Beer’, published in The Friday Poem, here.

‘Considering the effects: on poems featuring bowls by Stephen Payne, Pauline Stainer and Ted Walker’, published in The Friday Poem, here.

‘The grief I cast is for me: the life and poetry of Ted Walker’, published in The Friday Poem, here.

‘Sinking into silence: the haiku achievement of Caroline Gourlay’, published in Presence, here.

‘What I think about when I think about English-language haiku’, published in The Friday Poem, here.


REVIEWS

The reviews I wrote for Sphinx are available here.

My review of Lemonade in the Armenian Quarter by Sarah Mnatzaganian, published in The Friday Poem, here.

Life and Love’, my review of Lanyard by Peter Sansom, published in The Friday Poem, here.

‘A way of saying’, my review of Fool by Greta Stoddart, published in The Friday Poem, here.

‘The weight of history’, my review of Selected poems 1983-2023 by Ian Parks, published in The Friday Poem, here.

My review of New and Selected Poems by Cliff Yates, published in The Friday Poem, here.

‘If Tarring Neville was not a village’, my review of Instead of an Alibi by Geoff Hattersley, published in The Friday Poem, here.

‘Measured economy’, my review of Whatever You Do, Just Don’t by Matthew Stewart, published in Wild Court, here.

‘Holiday in Barlovia’, my review of A Land Between Borders by Mike Barlow, published in The Friday Poem, here.

‘STRIKE is a fist beating fast’, my review of STRIKE by Sarah Wimbush, published in The Friday Poem, here.

‘In those days, robbery was my form of love’, my review of The Ayrshire Nestling by Gerry Cambridge, published in The Friday Poemhere.

My review of Everything is Present by Anna Woodford, published in The Friday Poem, here.

‘Neilson Schmeilson’, my review of Summers Are Other by Andrew Neilson, published in The Friday Poem, here.