PROSE

“By morning, I thought I’d lost / the orchestra of silence”

2025

Reviews

Review of Fantasia by Nisha Ramayya, Boiled Owls by Azad Ashim Sharma and Everyone is Everyone Except You by Jordan Hamel, at Alchemy Spoon, Issue 14, Winter

​Review of Blue Hour by Jo McNeice, at a fine line, New Zealand Poetry Society, Summer 2025, maunga/mountain

2024

Reviews

Review of […] by Fady Joudah, I Cannot Be Good Until You Say It by Sanah Ahsan and Sturge Town by Kwame Dawes, at Alchemy Spoon, Issue 13, Summer

​Review of God Complex by Rachael Allen and Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit by Jen Campbell, at Alchemy Spoon, Issue 12, Spring

2023

Reviews

Review of Self Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant, Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan and Artisanal Slush by Ellora Sutton, at Alchemy Spoon, Issue 11, Autumn

​Review of Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris and From From by Monica Youn, at Alchemy Spoon, Issue 10, Summer

​Review of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency by Chen Chen, Living by Troubled Waters by Roy McFarlane and Impure Thoughts by Golnoosh Nour, at Alchemy Spoon, Issue 9, Spring

Review of Drive by Elaine Sexton, at the Night Heron Barks, February

2022

Reviews

​Review of Scale by Mina Gorji and High Desert by André Naffis-Sahely, at Alchemy Spoon, Issue 8, Winter

Review of Wilder by Jemma Borg, at the Poetry School, November

Review of Rookie: Selected Poems by Caroline Bird, The Room Between Us by Denise Saul and Night with Pocketful of Stars by Traian T. Cosovei, translated by Adam J. Sorkin & Andreea Iulia Scridon in Alchemy Spoon, Issue 7, Summer

Review of Photovoltaic by Sarah Watkinson and In the Same Light 200 Tang Poems for Our Century translated and edited by Wong May in Alchemy Spoon, Issue 6, Spring

2021

Reviews

Review of Thinking With Trees by Jason Allen-Paisant and Forty Names by Parwana Fayyaz in Alchemy Spoon, Issue 5, Winter

Review of Catcalling by Lee Soho, translated by Soje in Modern Poetry in Translation, December

Review of War of Beasts and Animals by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale, and overrun by wild boars by Maia Elsner in Alchemy Spoon, Issue 4, Summer

Review of Aunty Uncle Poems and Two stops short of Barking by Gboyega Odubanjo in Tentacular Magazine, Issue 8, Summer

2020

Essays

Power of Poetry #98 - Essay for The Poetry Question, April 6, 2020

2019

Essays

“The rhythm of these words gives me hope that moments of such precise beauty will always exist.” (S.K. Grout on Aubade) - Half Mystic Journal Issue VII: Aubade, April

Letter from the editor - honey & lime literary journal, Issue 2, March

2017

Short Stories

“And from a distance, the dogs barking” - Longlisted for the 2017 Bridport Short Story Award

2016

Short Stories

“Kissing Tiny Flowers” - Longlisted for the 2016 Colm Tóibín International Short Story Award