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Stories

'Cottontails' 
forthcoming in Stirring : Summer 2025

'The Flea Looks Up At The Mountain'

DMQ Review : Fall 2024

'Holes'
The Collidescope : Apr 2024


'The Forest Bather'
Marrow Magazine : Issue 9

​'Driving Lessons'
Your Impossible Voice : Mar 2024

'The Ultimatum'
The Wild Word : Issue 77, Feb 2024

'Looking for Sharks'
- Nominated for a Pushcart Prize -

The Nassau Review : May 2023

'Skeg Out Back'
Liennek Journal : Feb 2023

'Bleached'
Flash Frog : Jan 2023

'Lovers of this world'
Litro : Nov 2021

'Tourist'
Charge : Issue 5, Apr 2021


'Cote'
Breakwater Review : Issue 24, Spring 2019

'Out in the land'
B
indweed : Issue 9, 2019

'Halloween'
Eyot : Issue 4, Nov 2018

'Sharp Sticks'
SmokeLong Quarterly : Jan 2018

'The Merry King'
Bodega : Issue 44, Apr 2016

'Trumbling Yearns South'
Salient : Issue 2, Mar 2016





Poetry

'Escaping the Isle'
Virginia Literary Review : Fall 2024 

​'Every Day'
WestWard Quarterly : Apr 2024

'The Tipping Point'
Hot Pot Magazine ​: Issue 11, Feb 2024

'The Archevil Origami of Endings'
Back Patio Press : Jan 2024

'Tyrannosaurus morning'
Jersey Devil Press : Jan 2023

'Sanctuary' ; 'The Pool'
Morphrog : Issue 26, Jan 2023

'Surviving water'
Opal Lit : May 2021

'Prayers on the web' ; 'Bath life'
Ariel Chart : Mar 2021

'Retreats'
The Tung : May 2017

'Ideas for away' ; 'Travelling notes'
The Tung : Mar 2017

'Gigging' ; 'Families'
The Tung : Jan 2017

'Island Bay' - pts I, II and III
Envoi : Issue 173 - Jun 2016

'The Distance Between Things'
Agenda : Broadsheet 26 - ​' New Generation Poets '

'A strange space in a strange country moving...'
The Cadaverine : Mar 2016

'Each other' ; 'Distinctions' ; 'The First Walks'
Potluck : Jan 2016

'Call to prayer on the Sumbawa crossing' ;
          'In Paga' ; 'Huff tries something' 

The Kalyna Review : Autumn 2016

'Ex-patriot thinking'
Morphrog : Issue 11

'Old Doze Sitter'
Agenda : Broadsheet 24

'Translation'
Poet and Geek : Issue 9

'Well and Water'
London Grip : Autumn 2014

'Encountered a man'
Ink, Sweat and Tears : Nov 2014

'Not a fable'
Message in a Bottle : Issue 24

'Fowl'
St Peter's College Record, Oxford University
2012 (McKay Poetry Prize - Runner-up)


​Other appearances

dreamdocks + static - In May 2022, I started work on a website in order to house a number of experimental cuts, short prose pieces, 'photo essays', and other projects that I suspect are unlikely to find a home elsewhere. I add to it quite regularly. In February 2025, I presented selections from the site at the 52nd Louisville Conference of Literature and Culture.

In July 2024, a poem of mine was set to music by Piers Kennedy and performed by the St Peter's College Choir at the Castle Bailey Quad opening ceremony in Oxford. 


A few places have also been kind enough to publish writing about my writing: 
 
Interview for 'Lovers of this world'                                               Litro Magazine : Jan 2022
'Sharp Sticks' discussed as part of 'Five From the Archive'        SmokeLong Quarterly : Feb 2021
Interview for 'Sharp Sticks'                                                            SmokeLong Quarterly : Jan 2018
Interview for The Distance Between Things                                    The Tung  : July 2017
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