My debut poetry collection Octopus Mind was published by Seren Books in July 2023.
My poetry film, ‘Fragments of Us’, was commissioned by SHAPE Arts, and has now been published online.
Competitions
1st Prize: Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Competition (2021), nominated for the Forward Prize
2nd Prize: Bangor Poetry Competition (2021)
Highly commended: Liverpool Poetry Prize (2021) DAC Creative Word Award (2022)
Commended: Ware Poets Open Competition (2021 – two poems) Cheltenham Poetry Festival Competition (2021) Welsh Poetry Competition (2019)
Shortlisted: Bridport Prize (2019 and 2020) Gloucestershire Poetry Society Open Competition (2021) Hammond House Publishing Prize (2021)
Longlisted: Mslexia Poetry Competition (2021) Yeovil Prize (2022) Paper Swans Pamphlet Prize (2022) AUB Poetry Prize (2022) Bedford Writing Competition (2021) Indigo Dreams Pamphlet Competition (2017)
Poems in Magazines and Journals…
‘Sprouts’ forthcoming in Lighthouse Journal issue 30…
‘Craquelure’ in The Pomegranate London (issue 10, March 2026)
‘All my poems are about sheep’ in Lighthouse Journal (issue 29 – August 2025)
‘Enter’ in The Ekphrastic Review (August 2025) – this hybrid prose/poem text was also nominated for the Best Microfiction Award!
‘Multiple Choice’ in Poetry Wales (61.1 – Summer 2025)
‘Kaleideneurodivergescope’ in Streetcake Magazine (issue 97 – July 2025)
‘Collective Mourning’ and ‘Response’ in The Lincoln Review (Issue 6 – June 2025)
‘Collecting Eyes’ in Dust Poetry Magazine (Issue 14 – June 2025)
‘The Shadow Man’ & ‘In the Jungle’ in Black Nore Review (June 2025)
‘No’ in Pennine Platform (Issue 97 – April 2025) – listen to the audio clip online
‘Poetry as Network’ (meta-ekphrastic poems and a reflection on my PhD research) in Poetry Wales (60.2 Winter 2024)
Seven prose poems in The Mackinaw (Issue 5 – September 2024)
‘Danger’ on the Seren Books Friday Poem blog (August 2024)
Three poems with audio recordings in iamb (Wave 18 – June 2024)
‘A humble cloak placed on the back of a donkey and made out of fragments of cloth’ in The Interpreter’s House (issue 81 – 2024)
‘Embrace’ in Obsessed with Pipework (Issue 104 – 2023)
‘Octopus Self’ was published on the Seren Books Friday Poem blog (August 2023)
‘eye / reflections’ a poem-collage in Ink Sweat and Tears (2023)
‘Instinct’ in The Alchemy Spoon (Issue 9 – 2023)
‘Learning to Play’ and ‘Perhaps Dyspraxia is Sand’ in Confluence (Issue 14 – February 2023)
‘Him’ in Imposter Lit (Vol 2. issue 3, 2023) – inspired by Kim Moore
‘Sorry’ in Poetry Wales (Vol. 58 no.1 – Summer 2022)
‘Hover’ and ‘Wish’ in London Grip (Winter 2021)
‘Blue Nude’ in Raceme (autumn/winter 2021)
‘The Blather’ in Poetry Wales (vol.57 no.1 – July 2021)
‘Fledge’ in Anthropocene (July 2021)
‘Advice’ & ‘Today, I am a Goose’ in Under the Radar (issue 27, 2021)
‘Legerdemain’ in Scintilla (issue 24, 2021)
‘I am trying not to write a poem about you’ in One Hand Clapping (2021)
‘It’s Bonfire Night again’ – in The Bangor Literary Journal (issue 13, 2020)
‘He is impervious to rain‘ – in the Blue House Journal (issue 3, 2020)
‘Crow’ – in Wales Arts Review (2020)
‘New Year’s Eve’ – in Riggwelter (issue 27 – 2020)
Two poems – in Envoi (Spring 2020)
Two poems – in The Lampeter Review (issue 17 – 2019)
Three poems – in Poetry Salzburg Review (Summer 2019)
‘The Starry Night’ – in Black Bough Magazine (2019)
‘In a Forest near Strömsund, Sweden’ – in Atrium (2019)
‘This Muted Shade’ – in The New Welsh Review (issue 120 – 2019)
‘Slowing Down’ – in The Cardiff Review (2019)
‘Survival’ – in Acumen (94 – 2019)
‘Fate’ – in The Ekphrastic Review (2018)
‘Coming Home’ – in Ink Sweat and Tears (2018)
‘Growing into Myself’ – in The Open Mouse (2017)
Two Poems – in The High Window (2016)
My poems have also appeared in the The Waxed Lemon, Marble Poetry broadsheet, Here Comes Everyone, Abergavenny Small Press Literary Journal, Dust Poetry Magazine, The Crank, The Phare, Poetry and Covid, Sarasvati, Visual Verse (Freedom and Turning Point), and i am not a silent poet. I’ve had haiku published in The Wales Haiku Journal and The Seashores Haiku Journal, and a sequence of four poems & photographs was published in Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Anthologies, Residencies and Commissions
A poem ‘Burning Shame’ features in Beyond / Tu Hwnt: Anthology of Welsh Deaf and Disabled Writers edited by Bethany Handley, Megan Angharad Hunter, and Sioned Erin Hughes, published by Lucent Dreaming (January 2025)
My poem ‘Yellow’ featured in Gwrthryfel / Uprising: An anthology of radical poetry from contemporary Wales edited by Mike Jenkins, published by Culture Matters (May 2022)
One of my poems features in NeurodiVERSE – an anthology of poems on the theme of neurodiversity (Flapjack Press 2022).
Ten poems were published as part of a Poet in Residence project at the Cynon Valley Museum (June 2020), responding to images from their online exhibitions.
Two of my poems were translated into Italian for the bilingual anthology Correnti Incrociate published by Mosaique Press (June 2021), and two more were translated for the second anthology Correnti Incrociate 2, published in 2022. I’ve also had two poems translated into Romanian for the Curente La Ruscruce anthology, also published by Mosaique Press.
A poem was commissioned by Voluntary Arts Wales (now called Creative Lives) for the ‘My Creative Time’ anthology (2021) for which I also delivered a creative writing workshop.
You may also be interested in my interactive poetry and visual art exhibitions, or my non-fiction publications.
