I have three collections: Another life (Oversteps Books, 2016), Nothing serious, nothing dangerous (Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2019), and Remembering / Disease (Broken Sleep Books, 2022). My pamphlet A Stolen Hour was published by Grey Hen Press in 2020.

Awards and competition successes

• Poem High wind one of 20 poems selected by jury for The Poetry Archive’s 2022 Poetry Now! Wordview competition.
• Northern Writers’ Award for Poetry from New Writing North, 2020.
• Nominated for the Forward Prize for best single poem (2019).
• Awarded the Sonnet Prize (Ware Poets), 2nd place in the Marple and Waltraud Field competitions. Winner of the members’ competition (Poetry Society).
• Runner-up in Ambit competition, judged by George Szirtes.
• Highly commended in the Poetry on the Lake, Manchester Cathedral competitions. Commended in Barnet, Magma, Waltraud Field, Havant, and Ware Poets competitions.
• My entry in the 2013 erbacce competition was commended. Over 6,000 entries were received.

Haiku

• Haiku, tanka, haibun, renga/renku and other collaborative sequences have been published in anthologies, magazines and journals. These include Bare Bones, Blithe Spirit, Presence, Journal of Renga and Renku, Lynx, the Iron Book of British Haiku, Pan Haiku Review, edited by Alan Summers.
• I contribute reviews to Presence of books of haiku, tanka and haibun published in the UK and abroad.

Fiction

• Short stories were semi-finalist and published in anthologies.
• Took part in World One-Day Novel Cup, held at the Groucho Club, London, 1995.
• Diving at Calypso Bay was broadcast on BBC Write Now.