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 NewsLongbarrow Press launches its long-awaited walking-themed anthology The Footing with presentations, readings, audio works and illustrated talks on Monday 25th November at The Shakespeare, Gibraltar Street, Sheffield. The evening kicks off at 7.30 p.m. City, country and coast (and the spaces in between) are the settings for these journeys; here, the act of walking is,…
Posted on 20th November 2013 in NewsLongbarrow Press is proud to announce the publication of The Footing. The Footing is an anthology of specially commissioned poems on the theme of walking, with substantial contributions from Angelina Ayers, James Caruth, Mark Goodwin, Rob Hindle, Andrew Hirst, Fay Musselwhite and myself. A beautifully produced 96-page hardback book, it is now available from Longbarrow…
Posted on 1st November 2013 in News
Jigs and Reels came out in May 2013: a chapbook published by Shoestring Press. The central sequence envisages the poems almost as ‘folk’ songs combined into ‘sets’: two poems spliced together to create thematic couplings on the page. The pieces explore issues of family, fatherhood, mortality, and another folk ‘standard’ – the impact of war. The first…
Posted on 22nd July 2013 in Publications