Published Poetry Collections
2021 When I Think of My Body as a Horse The Poetry Business
2017 Gifts the Mole Gave Me Valley Press
2015 Lapstrake, Flarestack Poets
2013 Museum Pieces, Prolebooks
2011 Nan Hardwicke Turns into a Hare, Prolebooks
Anthologies (among others)
- 2018 Pan She is Fierce Pan MacMillan
- 2018 #MeToo Poetry Anthology Fairacre Press
- The Forward Book of Poetry 2016 Forward
- The Everyday Poet Deborah Almapub. MOMbooks
- The Yorkshire Anthology Miles Salter Valley Press
- #2Poetry Anthology Richard Skinner Vanguard
- The Emergency Poet Deborah Alma MOMbooks
- Otley Wordfest Bike Anthology
- Anthology of Dance, The Emma Press
- Writing Motherhood Carolyn Jess Cooke, Seren Books
Journals and Magazine Publication (among others)
- The High Window Journal
- Zoomorphic
- Acumen
- Butcher’s Dog
- Prole
- Interpreter’s House
- Pennine Platform
- Other Poetry
- Under the Radar
- Bare Fiction
- Envoi
- Ink, Sweat& Tears
- Agenda
- The Dawn Treader
- Clear Poetry
Competition Success
2017 Manchester Cathedral Prize: Highly Commended
2016 The Black Country Living History Museum Competition: Second prize
2015 The Forward Prize: Highly Commended
2015 Prole Laureate: First Prize
2015 Yorkmix: First Prize
2011 Swalelife competition: Highly Commended
2011 Plough Comp: Long listed
Collaborations
2017 Still Born – with Adinda van ‘t Klooster
An art and poetry collaboration in which I used Adinda’s art work, Earth, to describe my experience of burying and grieving for my daughter
2015 On the Edge – a Bridlington Poetry Festival fringe event
Working with several other poets and artists to produce collaborative art based around the idea of the liminal spaces in sea side towns.
2018 Seed – Photographer Sophie Ingleby’s beautiful collection of portraits and photographs documenting the IVF process. Sophie requested the use of my poem Egg Collection as part of the project.
