EX-CETERA (Nine Pens, 2023)

I recently shared on my social media accounts the exciting news that my new poetry collection, EX-CETERA, will be published…

Future Corpse

A poem comprised of ‘one true sentence’s, after Ernest Hemingway. Dedicated to my dad today on the 8th anniversary of…

oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed & drink too much wine & think too much & love you so much

Some exciting news via The Poetry Society! I’m honoured to have had a poem from my work-in-progress, about overthinking and…

Inventory: Things You’ll Find When She Dies

Behold, my Aesthetica Creative Writing Award shortlisted poem, a rewrite of an old poem from History of Present Complaint but…

Observation in an Emergency

I’ve just put my Christmas decorations up (goth aesthetic black and purple baubles hanging on the walls, no tree), so…

Listening to an ‘end credits’ playlist & feeling sick about the kiss that never happened

Tonight the wide Parma Violet sky demands to be written as poetry. Every time the clouds decide to dress themselves…

EX-CETERA – publication day!

It’s publication day for me and my mad little book! After nine years in the making, the story of Dolly…

Brent Cross Shopping Centre & Jump – two poems from EX-CETERA

Two poems from EX-CETERA, which will be out in the world this time next week! (29/09). ‘Brent Cross Shopping Centre’…

On visiting Stationers Park playground for the first time since 1999

I am weeping in a wooden turret, remembering the dead dragonfly we found here: we wanted to keep it, so…

Worried to Death (1) & Worried to Death (2) – from EX-CETERA

I’m excited to share two poems from my new collection, EX-CETERA, which will be published by Nine Pens at the…

The Warning

A new poem from my WIP, originally published by The London Magazine. Because inspiration can strike at any time –…