About Me

About Me

Gardener, Writer

A former English teacher and bookseller, I now work as a self-employed gardener (National Certificate in Horticulture) and write poetry, plays and essays. My writing credits can be viewed here. I have had two poetry books and two poetry pamphlets published by various publishers. I was a co-translator of Alain-Fournier:Poems (Carcanet). I commissioned and edited Four American Poets (The High Window Press) and was a co-editor at The High Window (2016-2018). My essays can be read at the Fortnightly Review. I enjoy cycling, fell-running, sea swimming, dog-walking, jazz, travel, reading, horticulture and garden design.

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Publications



Magazines and Journals


  • 'The Cricket Ball', 'Football Match' - Fire Magazine, 2011 
  • 'Ferry to Tiree' - Orbis 156, 2011 
  • 'Film and Books' - Anon, 2012 
  • 'Mutual Attraction' - Poetry Review, 2012 
  • 'The Game in Play' - The English Chicago Review, 2012
  •  'St Malachy's' - Orbis 161, 2012 
  • 'Window View', 'I Spy' - South Bank Poetry, 2013
  •  'I-America' - The English Chicago Review, 2013 
  • 'What's New on the Road', '2012' - arts bridge, 2013
  •  'The Card Game' - Dream Catcher 27, 2013
  •  'The Canal', 'Parliament Hill', 'Angel Eyes', 'Billy Ockham', 'The Tenth Gate', Who da ya fink ya are' - Poetry Salzburg Review, 2013 
  • 'The Disappearing Path', 'Rain-Shower', 'The Remains of Warmth', 'Mists of September' - Acumen 78, 2014 
  • Four Alain-Fournier translations - The French Literary Review, 2014
  •  'Death of the Maiden' - The Shop (Ire), 2014
  •  'Autumn', ''Ice' - Obsessed With Pipework, 69, 2015
  •  'Road-Song' - Agenda, 2015
  •  'Return of Persephone' - Orbis 161, 2015
  •  'Remembrance Days' 'Comrade Svejk', 'Weekend Break' - Sentinel Literary Quarterly, 2015
  • LondonGrip - 'Rapture', 2015
  • The Great Gatsby Anthology, Silver Birch Press, 2015
  • 'Mark Rothko' - Poems For a Liminal Age, Sentinel
  • 'The Happy Cafe' - UK Carers Magazine, 2016
  • 'Neagu' - Manhattan Review, 2016
  • Election - The Spectator, July/2017
  • Three Van Gogh Poems (The High Window Press), Summer, 2018
  • 'The Sevenths', 'The Tenths' - Manhattan Review, Autumn, 2018
  • 'The Sixths', Vanguard Anthology 3 (Vanguard Editions), Autumn, 2019
  • 'Highgate', 14 Magazine, 2020
  • The saddest thing I ever saw - The Spectator, July, 2021
  • The Other Cafe - The Spectator, August, 2021
  • A Double Drowning, Self-Portrait with Hands, Boots and Spade. Pennine Platform, 2023
  • Lockdown - 14 Magazine, 2023
  • A Double Drowning - Pennine Platform, 2024
  • Self-Portrait with Books, Hands and Spade - Pennine Platform, 2024
  • The Lonesome Traveller, The Leaving Party - Orbis 208, 2024

  • BOOKS

  • The Mask (Lapwing Publications, 2014)
  • Angles & Visions (The High Window Press, 2015)

  • PAMPHLETS

  • I Freeze, Turn to Stone (Poetry Salzburg, 2018)
  • Picture, Mirror, World, (Calder Valley Press, 2019)

  • TRANSLATION

  • Alain-Fournier: Poems (Carcanet, 2017)


  • AS EDITOR

  • Four American Poets (The High Window Press, 2016)


  • ANTHOLOGIES

  • 14 (Vanguard Publications, 2020)
  • Poems for a Liminal Age (Sentinel, 2015)
  • The Great Gatsby Anthology (Silver Birch, 2015)
  • (UK Carers Anthology, 2015)
  • No Net Ensnares Me (Calder Valley Poetry, 2024) 'Wife'

  • ESSAYS

  • Artists and their Physicians: Vincent van Gogh and Doctor Gachet (fortnightly review)
  • The Eyes of Coleridge (fortnightly review)
  • The Search for Home in the Work of John Keats (fortnightly review)
  • https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/

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