Print journals include:

• orbis: Featured Poet Issue 185, issue 197.
• The North: Issues 63, 67, 69 and 71.
• Magma: My father as a coat stand Issue 62 (Violence), The empty hours Issue 74 (Work).
• The Journal: Homage to a marine biologist and Eleven o’Clock (# 54); There was nowhere to put my mug (# 63).
• The Alchemy Spoon: Sitting in issue 7 and To my father in issue 17.
• Obsessed with Pipework: Ticket in # 108 and Miracle at the Whitworth, Manchester in # 113.
• Poetry News, Strix, The Frogmore Papers, Fly on the Wall Magazine, Pennine Platform, Shearsman Magazine, Finished Creatures, erbacce, The Storms (RoI).

Poems appeared in the The Candyman’s Trumpet (a pdf journal edited by Jack Caradoc) and online: And Other Poems, Poetry and Covid, The Poetry Shed, Free Verse Revolution, Jonathan Davidson’s Out of Office, The Starbeck Orion, Poetry Worth Hearing (episodes 28 and 37), Little Mslexia, and the magazines listed below. 

• Canada is as far away as bibles are on After.
• Speaking with the Palaeontologist on 10/11/2025 on Black Nore Review
• Phoenix’ Promise on Acropolis Magazine
• Snow Woman on Atrium and He kneels before her on Atrium
• Punctuation on Tentacular
• The statistics of poetry on Harana
• 232/A Beraroos, Handmade and Tram No 1 on Briefly Write
• Waiting on Dust Magazine
• Instructions for painting a bird in six steps on the Silver Birch Press (US)
• High Wind was one of 20 poems chosen by judges for the Poetry Archive. Here is the link 
• Goa is on another continent, published by Persimmon Tree (US) under Short Takes.
• My relationships with Irish men as a half-time score on p 54 of the Martello Journal
• Cooking and Tatau on Season 1, 5 January 2025, Mugwort Magazine
• After the bike ride on Perverse
• The prose poem sequence Aposematism / Honest Warning Signals on Ink, Sweat & Tears on 2/9/24
• Family bible on London Grip Issue 55
• Acronyms on Issue 8 of Fig Tree Poetry
• Panorama Mesdag and I had to give a reason on The High Window

Standing in for Utah

This poem was awarded the Sonnet Prize in the annual Ware Poetry competition, 2012. The judge, Dean Parkin, wrote “For the Sonnet Prize I chose the stirring ‘Standing in for Utah’ as I appreciated the combination of form with a bold subject.” My prose poem Still casting a shadow was commended in the same competition.

You missed the last bus

Because you were standing on the wrong side of the road
and only that because someone had stolen your bike
and only that because someone else had driven through
red lights and left you with a write-off and only that

Because you’d walked out of a job that paid the bills
but punished you when you failed to persuade someone
to settle their account and that only on account of your
father who too had started too late, left too early.

(Published in The North and on Out of Office (Jonathan Davidson).