2025
I'll be reading at the Big Little Arts Weekend in Rushlake Green at 2pm on Sunday 28th September. Admission is free and there are lots of other events happening in the village all weekend: https://littleartsfestival.co.uk/big-little-arts-weekend/
I will be reading at the Literary Club in Rye on 14th September at 3pm, alongside Robert Hamberger, Patricia McCarthy and Jessica Mookherjee. Tickets are available via Rye Arts Festival's website: https://box-office.ryeartsfestival.org.uk/sales/home/2025/54th-annual-festival---2025/robert-hamberger-patricia-mcca
I'm pleased as punch to have been shortlisted for the Rhysling Award: https://www.sfpoetry.com/rhysling.html
2024
My sequence 'In Graves Wood' appears in Issue 32 of Long Poem Magazine.longpoemmagazine.org.uk
August 2023.
2023
sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/a-bigger-splash-creative-writing-anthology-2023
My poem 'In Graves Wood twelvemonth and a day' is shortlisted for the Spelt Nature Poetry Prize.
My poem 'We pond the body Weald' appears in Sussex Wildlife Trust's A Bigger Splash anthology: sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/a-bigger-splash-creative-writing-anthology-2023
I'll be reading at this year's Tears in the Fence festival in Stourpaine, Dorset.
July 2022
I'll be reading at the White Hart Hotel, Lewes, on 13th August at 6pm in association with Agenda magazine.
Spring 2022.
On Bent Pin Lane appears in Tears in the Fence.
April 2022.
In Coppice Wood appears in Stand, Vol 20, No1.
Spring 2022.Alec Taylor's review of Ashdown appears in Poetry Salzburg Review.
October 2021
On 17th November at 7.30pm I'll be reading with Julian Roup at Ashdown Park Hotel, Wych Cross, Sussex. The reading will be in aid of the Forest and will be hosted by Natasha Kaplinsky. Tickets are £15, available from Ashdown Forest's website.
August 2021
I am as pleased as Punch to announce that I'm now a presenter on WildHart Radio. The first episode of my show The Poetry Bath, in which I chat with Sarah Salway about her transition from journalism to fiction and poetry and about the importance of being silly, is available on catch-up.
July 2021
I will be running a workshop and reading with (unplugged) open mic on Ashdown Forest on 18th August as part of the Tunbridge Wells Poetry Festival.
March 2021
I've once again faced the embarrassment of hearing myself speak and have added two more poetry recordings to my YouTube channel.
February 2021
My review of Susie Campbell's Tenter appears in Tears in the Fence.
December 2020
My poem Harvest appears in One Hand Clapping.
September 2020
One Piece Missing from the Edge appears in the anthology Beyond the Storm: Poems from the Covid-19 Era.
July 2020
I am proud to announce that I've faced the excruciating ordeal of recording myself reading poems. Six pieces from my new collection Ashdown are now available to listen to on YouTube. They are:
Crossing the Pale
Hindleap, along with a short introduction to the poems
Goat Cross
Gills Lap
The Lancaster Room
Hindleap, Christmas Morning 1982
Each video is illustrated by Reem Acason and Ashdown is available from Paekakariki Press.
My poem Mayfield to Ashdown, 3rd January 2019 appears in Tears in the Fence, No 71 Spring 2020, along with Paul Matthews' review of Ashdown.
Sympathetic Magic is published in Popshot: The Mystery Issue, 27, Spring 2020.
I'll be reading at the Big Little Arts Weekend in Rushlake Green at 2pm on Sunday 28th September. Admission is free and there are lots of other events happening in the village all weekend: https://littleartsfestival.co.uk/big-little-arts-weekend/
I will be reading at the Literary Club in Rye on 14th September at 3pm, alongside Robert Hamberger, Patricia McCarthy and Jessica Mookherjee. Tickets are available via Rye Arts Festival's website: https://box-office.ryeartsfestival.org.uk/sales/home/2025/54th-annual-festival---2025/robert-hamberger-patricia-mcca
I'm pleased as punch to have been shortlisted for the Rhysling Award: https://www.sfpoetry.com/rhysling.html
2024
My sequence 'In Graves Wood' appears in Issue 32 of Long Poem Magazine.longpoemmagazine.org.uk
August 2023.
2023
sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/a-bigger-splash-creative-writing-anthology-2023
My poem 'In Graves Wood twelvemonth and a day' is shortlisted for the Spelt Nature Poetry Prize.
My poem 'We pond the body Weald' appears in Sussex Wildlife Trust's A Bigger Splash anthology: sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/a-bigger-splash-creative-writing-anthology-2023
I'll be reading at this year's Tears in the Fence festival in Stourpaine, Dorset.
July 2022
I'll be reading at the White Hart Hotel, Lewes, on 13th August at 6pm in association with Agenda magazine.
Spring 2022.
On Bent Pin Lane appears in Tears in the Fence.
April 2022.
In Coppice Wood appears in Stand, Vol 20, No1.
Spring 2022.Alec Taylor's review of Ashdown appears in Poetry Salzburg Review.
October 2021
On 17th November at 7.30pm I'll be reading with Julian Roup at Ashdown Park Hotel, Wych Cross, Sussex. The reading will be in aid of the Forest and will be hosted by Natasha Kaplinsky. Tickets are £15, available from Ashdown Forest's website.
August 2021
I am as pleased as Punch to announce that I'm now a presenter on WildHart Radio. The first episode of my show The Poetry Bath, in which I chat with Sarah Salway about her transition from journalism to fiction and poetry and about the importance of being silly, is available on catch-up.
July 2021
I will be running a workshop and reading with (unplugged) open mic on Ashdown Forest on 18th August as part of the Tunbridge Wells Poetry Festival.
March 2021
I've once again faced the embarrassment of hearing myself speak and have added two more poetry recordings to my YouTube channel.
February 2021
My review of Susie Campbell's Tenter appears in Tears in the Fence.
December 2020
My poem Harvest appears in One Hand Clapping.
September 2020
One Piece Missing from the Edge appears in the anthology Beyond the Storm: Poems from the Covid-19 Era.
July 2020
I am proud to announce that I've faced the excruciating ordeal of recording myself reading poems. Six pieces from my new collection Ashdown are now available to listen to on YouTube. They are:
Crossing the Pale
Hindleap, along with a short introduction to the poems
Goat Cross
Gills Lap
The Lancaster Room
Hindleap, Christmas Morning 1982
Each video is illustrated by Reem Acason and Ashdown is available from Paekakariki Press.
My poem Mayfield to Ashdown, 3rd January 2019 appears in Tears in the Fence, No 71 Spring 2020, along with Paul Matthews' review of Ashdown.
Sympathetic Magic is published in Popshot: The Mystery Issue, 27, Spring 2020.