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As you may know I am widely published, love reading and have read for BBC Radio 4, www.radiowildfire.com, and at several festivals. I won the 2006 Northern Exposure Prize, was a 2007 Poetry Business Competition winner and have since won or been placed in many other competitions.

'Crafted, tender poems, written with passion and purpose,' said Simon Armitage of my first collection, Without a Dog (Graft, 2008). Anne Stevenson ‘read it straight through at a single sitting’ enjoying its ‘mature wit and wisdom’. ‘Real linguistic adventurousness’ said Ian McMillan.

'Sharp and knowing, these poems dance before the reader in their exuberance and sudden dark. They are bold, irreverent and wickedly funny,’ said Alison Brackenbury of The Half-Mile-High-Club.

An experienced teacher and university lecturer, I also enjoy giving workshops.