Print journals include:

• orbis – Featured Poet # 185, # 197
• The North: # 63 – In those short, in-between years; Saturdays; 67 – The Foghorn and Alter Ego
• # 69 – Self-portrait, Mauritshuis; You missed the last bus; Short enough to submit to Pome
• # 71 – Landscape with a footbridge; Take my advice
• Magma # 62 – My father as a coat stand, Magma # 74 – The empty hours
• The Journal – Homage to a marine biologist and Eleven o’Clock (# 54); There was nowhere to put my mug (# 63)
• The Alchemy Spoon # 7 – Sitting, and The Alchemy Spoon # 17 – To my father
• Obsessed with Pipework: Ticket in # 108 and Miracle at the Whitworth, Manchester in # 113
• Poetry News, The Poetry Society – This too is art
• Pennine Platform, Shearsman Magazine, Finished Creatures, erbacce # 35, Fly on the Wall Magazine, The Storms (RoI) Inaugural Issue, Strix, The Frogmore Papers.

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 episode 28 and episode 37, Little Mslexia, and the magazines listed below. 

• After – Canada is as far away as bibles are
• Black Nore Review (10/11/2025)- Speaking with the Palaeontologist
• Acropolis Magazine – Phoenix’ Promise
• Atrium – Snow woman, and Atrium – He kneels before her
• Tentacular – Punctuations
• Harana – The statistics of poetry
• Briefly Write – 232/A Beraroos, Handmade and Tram No 1
• Dust Magazine – Waiting
• Silver Birch Press (US) – Instructions for painting a bird in six steps
• The Poetry Archive. Here is the link to High Wind, one of 20 poems chosen
• Persimmon Tree (US) under Short Takes – Goa is on another continent
• Martello Journal p 54 – My relationships with Irish men as a half-time score
• Mugwort Magazine Season 1, 05/01/2025 – Cooking and Tatau
• Perverse – After the bike ride
• Ink, Sweat & Tears 2/9/24 – the prose poem sequence Aposematism / Honest Warning Signals
• London Grip Issue 55 Spring 2025 – Family bible
• Fig Tree Poetry #8 – Acronyms
• The High Window – Panorama Mesdag and I had to give a reason

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).