Here you can browse my published poetry.
Poetry Publication with The Broken Spine – Beautiful Little Fools
I have three poems published in The Broken Spine‘s suitably beautiful hardback anthology celebrating the centenary of the publication of The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald.
Poetry Publication with Hedgehog Press
I have several poems in Hedgehog anthologies including A Little Black Book of Summer Poems Taped from Somebody’s Brother Remembering Philomena O’Meara, Country Singer
Poetry Publication with Lincs & Inks – I You Me
I have five poems with online publishers, Links & Inks. You can download the anthology here
Poetry and Fiction Publication – Not of This Wold
I have a poem and a short story in Not of this Wold, an anthology of weird Lincolnshire writing, edited by Dr Kate Cherrell
On-line Poetry Publication with The Dark Poets – Lord Caim
My work has been commended and published on line by The Dark Poets. Click here to read my gothic poem Lord Caim.
Poetry Publication – Written Off
Written Off specialises in publishing the work of Northern writers and is the re-brand of Bent Key Publications. They have published my poems in two anthologies: Ey Up and Ey Up 3
Poetry Publication – A Gracious Month
This poetry publication is a pamphlet which collects together all the poems written during April 2018 during #NaPoWriMo‘s National Poetry Writing Month. Published in February 2021, It is available both as an eBook and in paperback (ISBN 9798715707567.
By way of context, it contains the fifty poems and the prompts that stimulated the writing of them. And so they form a complete entity, both in the manner of writing and the styles of writing.
And so there’s pastiches, comedic inventions, wordplay, free verse, metred verse – lots of different stuff. The intention is to gather them into a single pamphlet as I think they deserve to be all together so that you (and I) can see how they came to be written.
Poetry Publication with Pure Slush – Love
Pure Slush has extensively published my short fiction but for Volume 4 of the Lifespan series, they chose to publish my poem Consumer.
Online poetry publication – voidspace zine
Voidspace zine is an online magazine which focuses on games and interactive art. This poem, based on a quotation from Victor Hugo, Not being heard is no reason for silence, is in a form which I have been developing and which I’ve named a ‘grid poem’. I’ve placed individual words in a grid in such a way that the reader can derive different meanings depending on how s/he navigates a pathway through the grid. This zine is free to access.
2 gothic poems – Strange Meeting and Spark
These narrative poems are deliberately written as a pastiche of a Victorian poet and touch on a macabre and dream-like world. Spark is a reworking of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Tinderbox. Published in 2018.