“ Can poetry ever come from a comfortable place?
Doesn’t there need to be a knife-edge under the toes?”
– Imtiaz Dharker
My poems have been published in a number of magazines and journals, including Mslexia, Obsessed With Pipework, Ink Sweat and Tears, Artemis, Green Spirit, Aesthetica, Scintilla, Clarion, Caduceus, Vita Poetica and Canary: A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis. In addition I have been published in a number of anthologies, including The Book of Love and Loss (eds. RV Bailey and June Hall, Belgrave Press, 2014), Moor Poets, Issues 3 & 4, Planet in Peril: An anthology for our time (Oneworld Publications 2020) and Places of Poetry: Mapping the Nation in Verse (eds. Farley and McRae, Simon and Schuster, 2020).
In addition, poems have won prizes or been Commended / Highly Commended in a number of poetry competitions, including The Virginia Warbey Poetry Prize 2010, The Plough Poetry Competition 2010, Torbay Poetry Competition 2010, The Writers Bureau Ltd 2010 Poetry Competition, Resurgence Poetry Competition 2015, Guernsey Poetry Competition 2018, Teignmouth Poetry Competition 2017, 2018, 2021, Coast to Coast Competition 2020, Cinnamon Poetry Competition 2020, Hedgehog Poetry Competition 2020, Roger McGough Poetry Competition 2020, Rosemary McCleish Competition 2022, Arundel Competition 2024, Charles Causley Competition 2024.
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