POETRY

“who puts a ring around my finger but / memory”

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

Confluence, or every time I google a beautiful word to check for meaning, it comes up as the name of a tech company” - SWWIM

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