My latest collection of poems is available from Longbarrow Press. Little Piece of Harm is a narrative sequence that focuses on 24 hours in the life of a city that has been shut down in the aftermath of a shooting. As this act of violence ramifies outwards, the sequence explores the geographical reach of Sheffield…
Posted on 28th March 2021 in Publications
My sonnet sequence ‘Death and the Gallant’ features alongside a range of other walking-driven poems in The Footing (Longbarrow Press, 2013). You can find out more about the anthology here, including accessing easy ways to pay for a book that has been labelled, from one reviewer: ‘the best anthology of new work I’ve read in…
Posted on 12th May 2014 in PublicationsMy essay on Kathleen Jamie’s poem ‘The Wishing Tree’ is available to read on the Longbarrow Press website here. I wanted to write a piece on the processes of re-drafting. The two versions of Jamie’s piece that are out in the world offer an interesting route into the choices poets make when they come to…
Posted on 12th May 2014 in News