POETRY
“who puts a ring around my finger but / memory”
2025
Journals
“Wild Talk” & “We can tell where a humpback whale has travelled from the themes in its song” - Wasafiri, March 2025
2024
Competitions
“Dear high microplastic concentration on the ocean floor,” - 3rd place in the 2024 New Zealand Poetry Society International Competition, judged by Janet Newman
Journals
“Transcendental Attraction” - Passengers Journal, Volume 5, Issue 4, December 2024 (audio read by Sue Brady)
“Cascade” - Under the Radar, Issue 33
“Showers in May” - a fine line, Winter 2024
2023
Journals
“Alexandria” - Poetry London, Autumn 2023
“Defining the width of a whirl” - Poetry Scotland, Spring 2023
“The Hug” - 14 Poems, Issue 10, Spring 2023
2022
Competitions
“The Seventeenth” - 1st Place in the 2022 Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition Open Category, judged by Caroline Bird
Finalist in the 2022 Frontier Global Poetry Prize, judged by Aria Aber
Highly Commended in the 2022 Ledbury Festival Poetry Competition, judged by Joelle Taylor
Journals
“The Long Grass” - Moist Poetry Journal
“There Are Eight Thousand Seven Hundred And Sixty Hours In A Year” - Magma Poetry, July 2022, Vol. 83, Solitude Issue
“You are a thing to love wildly” - LEON Literary Review, Issue 24
“Happy Idiot (I'm a Eurydice)” - Moria Journal, Issue Nine
“Two girls peeling apples” - Break the Bias | An Audio Anthology for International Women's Day 2022
2021
Competitions
“Transmission Gully” - Commended in New Zealand Poetry Society 2021 International Poetry Competition, judged by Lynley Edmeades
“Scintilla” - Commended in Ver Poets Open Competition 2021, judged by André Mangeot
Journals
“Periscope” - Poetry Wales, Winter 2021, Vol. 52
“hoping to keep upright” - The Night Heron Barks, Winter 2021
“In Retrograde” - Pages Penned in the Pandemic Anthology
“63% Through the Life Cycle of a Star” - Random Sample, Issue 6
“Pendulum” - Random Sample, Issue 6
“Terminus” - Amsterdam Quarterly, Issue 31
“Dispatches” - Glass: A Journal of Poetry, April 2021
“Ghosting” - The Shore, Issue 9
“Reconstructions” - SWWIM
“we are surprised when the ocean returns the things we throw away” - amberflora magazine
“Ecdysis” - What Are Birds Journal
2020
Competitions
“Sugar or ...” - 2nd place in the 2020 Ambit Poetry Competition, judged by Fred D'Aguiar - Launch Youtube Link
“Il y a toujours du brouillard” - Finalist in the 2020 Puerto del Sol Poetry Competition, judged by Rodney Gomez
“A Ritual Only We Know” - Commended in the New Zealand Poetry Society 2020 International Poetry Competition
Shortlisted for the 2020 “Getting Older” Candlestick Press Competition
Longlisted for The Frontier Poetry 2020 Industry Prize , judged by Johanna Emeney
Journals
“Honey” - The Bookends Review, December
“about to be split, by the storm's power, for two different routes”, “Untitled [Lovers' Contract]” & “the presence of absence” - Anti-Heroin Chic, November
“If god is a wolf, what does that make me?” - Finished Creatures, Issue 4, "Stranger"
“A Harpy in Suburbia” - Mookychick The Medusa Anthology
“Co-sign” - Stand, Volume 18 (3)
“A Rose Thief” - Brittle Star, Issue 46
“Philip” - Crannóg, Issue 52
“the man by the ferry” - fahmidan journal, Issue 1
“Self Portrait with Dreaming” - Sweet Tree Review, Summer 2020, Volume 5 | Issue III
“time spent understanding” - dialogist
“Mirror” - Cordite Poetry Review, Issue 96, No Theme IX, Edited by: Mindy Gill and Jeet Thayil
“Self Portrait as Sentimental Star” - Kissing Dynamite, Issue 15
“Ambitions of Love” - trampset
2019
Competitions
Semi-finalist in Boulevard 2019 Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets
“the blackout” - Longlisted and Published in the Live Canon International Poetry Competition Anthology 2019, Judged by Zaffar Kunial
Longlisted for 2019 Hastings Literary Festival Poetry Competition
“Arrival/Departure” - Semi-finalist in the Fourth Annual Open Chapbook Period The Atlas Review 2019
“September Third, Twenty Seventy Five, Common Era” - Commended in 2019 Verve Poetry Festival Competition, Judged by Joelle Taylor
Journals
“to jump, merrily” - Half Mystic Press, Issue VII - Aubade
“If you are still, you are still resisting” - Barren Magazine, Issue 11
“The Blue Room” - Nightjar Review
“Built for Speed” - L'Éphémère Review. Best of the Net 2020 Nominated
“Boundaries of touch” - The Honest Ulsterman
“Intervention” - Sinking City Literary Magazine
“Cambio” - The Rising Phoenix Review
“The dark blue suitcase” - Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit
2018
Journals
“Summer Viper”, “half past nine” & “Line Breaks” - the poetry annals "The Anatomy of Desire" Anthology
“To Katerina” & “Transliteration” - Banshee Lit, Autumn/Winter 2018
“So I didn't stay til the end” - Crannòg, Issue 48
“Parade” - Half Mystic Press, Issue V - Cadenza
“Ursa Minor” - Barren Magazine, Issue 4
“Discretionary” - Poached Hare
“For centuries, half of the world remained invisible” - former cactus
“Eurydice Waits” - Red Queen Literary Journal
“We need to stop seeing the body” - Parentheses Journal, Issue 4, The Orison Anthology Nominated
“Versus” - Bombus Press, Issue 6
“On a Cigarette” - Ink & Nebula
“Courting the flames you seek over water” & “You love her most when she tastes of wine and ignition” - Cauldron Anthology, Issue 5, “Seer”
2017
Competitions
“Lumb Bank” - Highly Commended in 2017 Castleberg International Poetry Prize, Judged by Riemke Ensing
“Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation 93 1961 (after Brexit)” - Shortlisted for the Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Competition
Journals
“Running from the Sun” - The Interpreter's House, Summer 2017
“All these gifts given to you” - Landfall, Issue 233, Autumn 2017
“Wanderlust or the Dissonance of Memory” - L'Éphémère Review