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.

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

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

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

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


REVIEWS

The reviews I wrote for Sphinx are available here.

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