Poems in print journals:
- orbis – Featured Poet # 185, The North – several issues; Magma; The Journal; The Alchemy Spoon ; Obsessed with Pipework; Poetry News, The Poetry Society ; Pennine Platform; Shearsman Magazine; Finished Creatures; erbacce # 35; Dream Catcher # 50; Fly on the Wall Magazine; The Storms (RoI) Inaugural Issue; Strix; The Frogmore Papers, The Affectionate Punch, Rapport, Pause, and The Candyman’s Trumpet (pdf journal).
Poems in online journals:
- After – Canada is as far away as bibles are
- And Other Poems – Blackbird
- 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
- Poetry Super Highway (US) – Gevers Deynootweg 116, Scheveningen, the Netherlands
- Ink, Sweat & Tears 2/9/24 – the prose 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
- Poetry and Covid Poems in the Plague Year – poem
- The Poetry Shed, Free Verse Revolution, Jonathan Davidson’s Out of Office, Little Mslexia
- The Journal of Imaginary Research, issue 11 ‘Shrinkage’ – Abstract The impact of childhood belief on adult ability to shrink objects.
- The Starbeck Orion
- Poetry Worth Hearing episode 28 and episode 37
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. The prose poem Still casting a shadow was commended in the same competition.
Fokkina was invited to contribute a poem to the project Time as Falling Atoms. It is curated by Louise Mather, the Editor-in-Chief of Acropolis, The project is a poetic exploration of time in relation to experiences of disability, chronic illness, mental health, and neurodiversity. It’s an inspiring collage of poems, art and photos. Here is the link. Once on the site, click on the image for the pdf.
Acacia Publications 