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 PublicationsI will be reading two sequences on Sunday 19th October at The Shakespeare Pub, Sheffield from 8 p.m. as part of the Off the Shelf Festival. ‘The Shattered Stars’ features the two poems ‘Death and the Gallant’ and ‘Jigs and Reels’. ‘Death and the Gallant’ explores Pre-Reformation wall art and its destruction from the point…
Posted on 29th September 2014 in EventsI’ve just written a new blog piece for the Longbarrow Press website on the influence of anthologies over the past fifty years, with particular reference to A Alvarez’s The New Poetry (1962, second edition 1966). You can read my opinions on the (undue) importance of anthology introductions and how collections are remembered here. While you…
Posted on 1st July 2014 in News
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 News