PUBLICATIONS

'Sea Creature Regrows Entire Body'   Debut Collection
(Verve Poetry Press, 2021, ISBN: 978 – 1 – 912565 – 57 – 3)

"Brazen, tender and undeceived, held in structures of great poise and resonance."  (Greta Stoddart)

‘Raw, intimate, immediate and written with a deft touch.,beautiful'
​(Roy McFarlane)

“Compassionate and unassuming, lucid and witty, poised and profound”.
(Carole Bourne-Taylor)

Available to purchase here.
Faber New Poets 13
​(ISBN 978 – 0 – 571 – 33039 – 3)

'Laconic, undeceived, brilliantly evoked.' 
​(Sean O'Brien. The Guardian) 

'A captivating fusion of poems, by turns witty, satirical, and melancholic.' (Chloe Stopa-Hunt. The Poetry Review)
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Available to purchase here.

RECENT  POEMS

Moth  -  Anthropocene  (Forthcoming July 2022)
Bodhisattva  -  One Hand Clapping (Spring 2022)
​Calais, or Part of me is at the Opera  -  The New European (24.10.2020)
Thursday  -  ​The Poetry Review (Summer 2020)
Sea Creature Regrows Entire Body  -  The Poetry Review (Summer 2020)  Young Poets Network Education Resource​​
Draft Email  -  Ledbury Poetry Festival commission (2020)
2084  -  Planet in Peril Anthology (2019)
Lemons  -  The New European (Bumper Summer Edition 2019)
Green Suitcase  -  Ambit Magazine (231)
Weekend  -  The North (59)

AWARDS

Faber New Poets   (Arts Council England and Faber&Faber)
Veronica Powles Memorial Scholarship   (Gladstone's Library)
​The Dorset Award    (​Bridport International Poetry Prize)

SHORT LISTED

Bridport International Poetry Prize  (2020 / 2019 / 2018 / 2016 / 2015)
Live Canon Poetry Prize  (2017)
Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence  (2017)
​The London Magazine Poetry competition  (2016)

LONG LISTED

National Poetry Competition
The Poetry Society (2019)

READINGS & WORKSHOPS

2022   Ledbury Poetry Festival
2022   Brasenose College, University of Oxford
2022   Sladers Yard Gallery, West Bay
2022   Verve Poetry Festival, Birmingham
​2021   Exeter Literary Festival
2020   Poetry in Aldeburgh (Poetry Society Reading)
2020   Ledbury Virtual Poetry Festival (Lockdown Poems)
2019   Exeter Literary Festival (Whose Voice is it Anyway?)
2019  ​ Sherborne Library (workshop for International Poetry Day)
2019   ​Wimborne Literary Festival
2018  ​ Bridport Literary Festival (with Annie Freud and Gill Barr) 
2017   ​Ledbury International Poetry Festival    
2017   ​Exeter Phoenix Art Gallery
2016  ​ Cambridge Literary Festival
2016  ​ Topping’s Bookshop, Bath
2016  ​​Faber&Faber

QUALIFICATIONS

PhD (York)   
BSc (Hons) Architecture UCL  
​Graduate of The National Film & TV School
MA Music (York)