Co-founder with Joolz Sparkes of London Undercurrents. In 2017 we received Arts Council England research & development funding to further develop our project.
I was Poet in Residence at Thrive Battersea for Open Garden Squares Weekend 2016, and also Chelsea Fringe 2017. You can read a bit about this in an article I wrote for the autumn issue of Battersea Matters (on page 10).
Triptych Poets (October 2010). This inaugural volume from Blemish Books includes a suite of my poems, Things Mended, alongside the work of two other Australian poets, Ray Liversidge and Mary Mageau. “Things Mended evokes whole-heartedly the quotidian of family life — and the small shames of childhood, recollected later.” – Geoff Page
In 1995, I won second prize in the Poetry Postcard Quarterly competition. You can view the postcard of the poem here.
As well as appearing in the following publications, my poems have been displayed on London’s buses.
On line
my quiet – Nutshells and Nuggets
park yourself here – Words for the Wild
Thrive Battersea & At Heart, The Squirrel is a Vampire – Re-Mixed Borders Poetry School pamphlet
The Data Quality Analyst’s Lot – And Other Poems
A river runs through this site – Card Alpha issue 2
Two poems in morphrog issue 13
Sacked from Cook’s Confectioners – Ink Sweat & Tears
Mrs Despard Gets My Vote – Well Versed
My Mother On Horseback & Specifications for an Orchard – Ol’Chanty issue 24
Jardinière Manquée & Garden Swap Shop – Mixed Borders Poetry School pamphlet
A moot point – The Poetry Shed
Reborn – The Stare’s Nest
Letter from Battersea – The Stare’s Nest and also Well Versed
Rising – And Other Poems final wave of holiday poems
Two poems on And Other Poems
The Hard Way – Ink Sweat and Tears (first published in Triptych Poets)
Vacated – Fabelist issue 2
Anthologies
The Pocket Poetry Book of Suffrage, Paper Swans Press, May 2018
The Quality of the Moment – Winning and Commended Poems from the Red Shed Open Poetry Competition 2018, Currock Press, May 2018. My poem The Sheffield Man was highly commended.
The Emma Press Anthology of Aunts, May 2017
The Emma Press Mildly Erotic Verse, February 2016 (UK)
The Emma Press Anthology of Age, October 2015 (UK)
Genius Floored: Notes While Waiting, Soaring Penguin Press, June 2015 (UK)
Loose Muse Anthology of New Writing by Women vol. 2, September 2012, and vol. 3, April 2013 (UK)
Velocity: the Best of Apples & Snakes, Black Spring Press, November 2003 (UK)
Eating Your Cake …. And Having It, Fatchance Press, November 1997 (UK)
Magazines
ARTEMISpoetry, issue 19, November 2016 (UK) – poem ‘Without Weather’ commended in the Second Light Poetry Competition 2017
South Bank Poetry issue 27, September 2017
ARTEMISpoetry, issue 18, May 2017
ARTEMISpoetry, issue 17, November 2016 (UK) – poem ‘In the hairdresser’s chair’ commended in the Second Light Poetry Competition 2016
Brittle Star, issue 39, November 2016 (UK)
Orbis, issue 176, August 2016 (UK)
South Bank Poetry, issue 21, July 2015 (UK)
Brittle Star, issue 36, May 2015 (UK)
South Bank Poetry, issue 19, November 2014 (UK)
Obsessed With Pipework 65, January 2014 (UK)
South Bank Poetry, issue 17, November 2013 (UK)
ARTEMISpoetry, issue 8, May 2012 (UK)
Brittle Star, issue 29, November 2011 (UK)
Orbis, issue 156, August 2011 (UK)
ARTEMISpoetry, issue 2, May 2009 (UK): listen to me read my poem The Colonel’s Daughter’s House
Obsessed With Pipework 44, October 2008 (UK)
Brand, issue 1, July 2007 (UK)
Space: New Writing 3, July 2006 (Australia)
Fatchance issues 4, 6 & 10 (UK)
HEAT 6, November 1997 (Australia)
The Affectionate Punch 5, May 1997 (UK)
Magma issues 5 & 6 (UK)
Scratch 13, June 1995 (UK)
