Poetry

My poem Thank You, NHS was included in Close Up: Poems on Cancer, Grief, Hope and Healing, with proceeds from the sale of the anthology, published in 2022 by Orchard Lea Books, being directed towards charities in aid of cancer research and support.

Poetry that Counts appeared in the October 2019 issue of Bonnie's Crew.

In October 2019, after attending a Community Conversations Poetry Workshop, led by Stephanie Norgate, as part of the the Journeys Festival International, my poem Sugar Cubes was included in an exhibition of poetry on display at Portsmouth Central Library. The exhibition ran until 15th November 2019.

Star and Crescent used my poem Grapefruit during September 2016 as part of their 'Star POems' series, featuring work from writers with a connection to the English 'PO' postal code.

I had the honour of being the first contributor to Strange Poetry, when Clifting appeared on their website in August 2016.

From The Church of Oulipo, an experimental prose poem, was featured in Synaesthesia's Nonsense themed issue, published in February 2014.

Six of my poems, Grapefruit, Secundigravida, Martyr, True Love, Mother Goose and Versification, were published during 2013 by Strong Verse.

Shakespearean Sky Sonnet was published in Poetica Victorian (Volume 1, Issue 2) during the autumn of 2011.

Three of my poems appeared in First Edition magazine.  A sonnet, Nothing But the Best is Good Enough, featured in July 2009 (Issue 5), while the humorous Mr & Mrs S Claus and Ned’s Christmas Letter appeared in March 2010 (Issue 10).