I write and publish poetry.

Plumstead Pram Pushers, my chapbook collection, is published by Red Ogre Review.

My hybrid work of poetry, memoir, cultural history and arts criticism is Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture (Routledge 2025).

Published poems include 

‘Postcards from the Edge’ in And Other Poems

‘Cottage. Hawkchurch, Dorset. 1989’ in Dust Poetry Magazine

‘Caged Birds’, ‘Grief Song’ and ‘Wifedom’ in Antae

‘Floppy Disks’ in Chaotic Merge Magazine

‘Flesh Wound’ in Arc Poetry Magazine

‘Three Teenage Girls: 1997’ in New Verse Review

‘Snowmelt’ in Modern Haiku

‘Cameo’ in Narrative Magazine

‘Ending Couplets’ (written with Holly Beswick) in Hog River Press

‘What Did You Call Me?’ in Rattle

‘Triptych for a Dairy Cow’ in The Marrow International Poetry

‘Chance Your Own Adventure’ in Nine Muses Review

‘Splice Asemic Triptych’ (film poem) in Ink Sweat & Tears

‘Sonnets from the Scrapheap’ (a Crown of Sonnets) in Sociological Review Magazine

‘Gravitational Kinks’ in Y2K Quarterly

‘Wreathing’ in Passengers Journal

‘Jesus Christ. Louise, You Shot Him’, ‘Complex’ and ‘Lighting Piece’ in Inkfish

‘My Place’ in The Waxed Lemon

‘The Old Pond’ in ANTAE

‘Pure Anxiety’ in Libre

‘The Red Egg’ in Querencia Autumn 2024 Anthology

‘Ruderal’ in Rattle (online — winner of Prompt Poem of the Month)

‘L’Etrangere’ in The Haibun Journal

‘My Face is a Haibun’ in Atrium

‘Synaesthesia’ in The Lit

‘Step/mothering’ in Rough Diamond Poetry

‘Sonnet for a Real Slag’, ‘Classy Birds’, ‘Eating In’, ‘Subchorionic Hematoma’ and ‘After Swimming’ in Roi Fainéant Press

‘Drink’ in Dust Poetry Magazine

‘Seekers’ in Wasteland Review

‘Road Movie’ in Fish Barrel Review

‘Human Hunger’ in The Garlic Press

‘All My Fears Now are For My Daughter: A Sestina’ and ‘Form and Content/I Respond to Your Poem’ in Ballast

‘Splice’ in The Citron Review

‘Acts of Repair’ in Ink Sweat & Tears

‘The End of the Road is Not Home’ in English: Journal of the English Association

‘Longing’; ‘The Blues’ and ‘The World’s Last Darkness’ in Harpy Hybrid Review 

‘How to disappear completely and never be found’ in Orphic Review

‘At the end of trusting’; ‘Your house, without you in it’; ‘A snapshot, 1983’; ‘Bobbi Brown/Bobby Baker: A Sestina’ and ‘Corrosive Substance’ in The Squawk Back

‘Slip Up Number Five’ in Eunoia Review

‘Serving Officers’ in Mukoli: The Magazine for Peace

‘Consensual’ included in the ‘Moths’ chapter of the Insect Love Songs anthology, edited by Fiona Benson here

My poetry installation Being Slaggy, was a sellout feature of Camden People’s Theatre 2024 SPRINT Festival.

In 2024 I was longlisted for Canterbury Festival’s Poet of the Year.