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.