Poems, essays & reviews

POEMS

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

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

‘End of’, published in Black Nore Review, here.

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

‘Dentistry’, 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 Dice-Box’, published in Ink, Sweat & Tears, here.

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

‘Bleasdale’, published in One Hand Clapping, here.

‘Headgear’, published in The Wardrobe, here.

‘Brian Clough Visits the Rijksmuseum’ and ‘Blindside Flanker’, published in Wild Court, 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‘ve written 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.