Here are some of my most recently published poems and signs of recognition.
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Cat Calming Beaumont-Hamel Beaumont-Hamel Revisited Flowers Were My Friends Dancing Over the Rooftops |
Confluence 12 | February 2021 |
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Urchins |
Reflected Light | December 2020 |
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Cat Sanctuary Exile |
Belong | November 2020 |
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Lost in the Labyrinth Sisyphus Rocks |
Whirlagust II | October 2020 |
| Double Period Maths | Bloody Amazing | September 2020 |
| Midden ‡ | Writer’s Cafe Issue 19 Can You Dig It? | June 2020 |
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Zucchini Chocolate Cake‡ My Father the Zookeeper‡ Hugging Henry Moore‡ |
Good Dadhood – Easter Special Edition | April 2020 |
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Well Wadded with Stupidity |
An Insubstantial Universe | March 2020 |
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The Last Time I Got Hysterical in the Night |
Witches, Warriors, Workers | February 2020 |
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Coming of Age ‡ |
Writer’s Cafe Issue 18 Fairy Tale | November 2019 |
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I Miss My Mum |
Anti-Heroin Chic on Loss and Grief | October 2019 |
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No More Sanctuary (Jt. Second Prize) Cat Sanctuary (shortlisted) Boot Cupboard Black (shortlisted) Hugging Henry Moore (especially valued) |
The Lord Whisky Animal Sanctuary Poetry Competition | July 2019 |
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Living the Bukowski Dream |
We Are Beat, National Beat Poetry Festival Anthology | July 2019 |
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999 Tadpoles |
Telling Toads | June 2019 |
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Father Mountain |
Further Than It Looks | May 2019 |
| Bait Dog | Indigo Dreams – For the Silent | May 2019 |
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Richard Dadd Haiku Richard Dadd Following Me About Bloody Knife in Hand |
Confluence Issue 9 | March 2019 |
| Letter to my Mother-in-law ‡ | Writer’s Cafe Issue 15 Letters | March 2019 |
| Black Witch ‡ | Three Drops from a Cauldron : issue 25 | February 2019 |
| New Wine ‡ | Bedford Writing Competition – Second Prize | January 2019 |
| Mystic Beach ‡ | Writing Your Voice – As Above So Below | December 2018 |
| Babi Yar Revisited | Nominated for the Pushcart Prize | December 2018 |
| Red Rebecca | Poetry Book Society / Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition – Second Prize | December 2018 |
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Babi Yar Revisited Aleppo |
Confluence Issue 8 | November 2018 |
| An Arabian Night | Pendle War Poetry | November 2018 |
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Tormenta ‡ Water our Mother ‡ Will of Steel ‡ |
Writer’s Cafe Issue 13 Elements | October 2018 |
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Deadly Nightshade ‡ Horror History ‡ My Mother’s Scars ‡ |
Anti Heroin Chic September 2018 | September 2018 |
| Cupboard Lust ‡ | Spilling Cocoa over Martin Amis | September 2018 |
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My Brother’s Face Living the Bukowski Jive Deadly Nightshade Fight Nights |
Can I Speak My Mind (West Yorkshire Mental Health) | September 2018 |
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In the Hoh ‡ Blossom Trees Dreaming ‡ |
Writer’s Cafe Issue 11 Into the Trees | August 2018 |
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Somewhere in the Netherlands, Summer 1956
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Strix Issue 4 | August 2018 |
| Muse ‡ | Writer’s Cafe Issue 10 Portraits | July 2018 |
| Arabesque | Confluence Issue 6 | April 2018 |
| Clurabhig Sonata in a Minor Key | Confluence Issue 5 | December 2017 |
| Widow’s Mite | Songs for the Unsung (Grey Hen Press) | November 2017 |
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Leonard Cohen pays Jane Austen an Accidental Visit in Elysium ‡
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Saveas Writers’ International Competition – Love and Freindship – Shortlist | October 2017 |
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The Sorries I am a Field |
Confluence Issue 4 | June 2017 |
‡ indicates a poem directly accessible through a web site or magazine.