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Poems: Publication Details

Since 2001, when I began writing poems, these have appeared in:

Acumen
Issue 49 Twentieth Century
Issue 54 Afterwards
Issue 59 Viking funeral
Issue 64 The Wrong Room

Aesthetica
Creative Works Annual 2010 Hush hush

Aireings
Issue 43 Apt Pupil
Issue 44 Codicil
Issue 45 Sea bed
Issue 47 There
(forthcoming issue) Two girls aged nine and ten

Anon
Issue 3 Small dreams of a doormat
Issue 5 Misadventure

Braquemard
Forthcoming issue: All that remains

Envoi
Issue 143 forthcoming
Faith in our times
Scarface
Self portrait with
Syzygy

nth position
Jan 2008 Dusty Answer

Orbis
Issue 133 To be or not to be
               Framed
               War Poem
Issue 141 Praha
Issue 147 Care of the Elderly
               Pest Control

Octavo
Summer 2005 Sleepless
                     Saviour
Summer 2006 Mandibles in the conservatory
                     It’s not what we sent you to college for

Pennine Platform
Issue 54 Gone
Issue 55 Prescription
Issue 56 Waltz
Issue 57 About slithering
             Thank you for thinking of us
             Far side
Issue 58 Mooning
             Bad move
             One last thing
Issue 59 Pausing on SEND
Issue 60 Thank you
             As if
Issue 64 The small print
Issue 66 The glass ship
             Raptors
             Prayer

Poetry London
Issue 64 Attitude
             Date

Poetry Monthly
Issue 118 Picasso's child

Raw Edge
Issue 17 J'accuse
Issue 21 On the map
Issue 23 Where I come from
             Full English

The North
Issue 42 Tableau
             J'accuse
             The half-mile-high club

The Rialto
Issue 60 Lost
             Virgin territory
Issue 66 Wheeee

Stand
Issue 184 Pueblo blanco

Staple
Issue 59 Valentine
Issue 63 Cuckoo

The North
Issue 40 SFX

Competitions
Winner, Northern Exposure Poetry Competition 2006
Orbis 134 Readers' Vote 2nd prize
Shrewsbury Literary Festival 2003: 3rd prize
The Wells Poetry Competition 2002: runner-up (winner Alison Chisholm)
Aesthetica Competition 2009: Finalist
Nottingham Open Poetry Competition 2008: Commended
Raise Your Banners Political Poetry 2009: 4th & 5th places
Salopian Poets Competition 2009: Commended
Winner, The Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition 2008

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