Words with music

• What you’ll find here

  I'm a writer, of poetry and prose, as well as reviewer, editor (and occasionally, academic). In this blog I log how things go with my ambitions and projects. If anything connects with what interests you, I'd be pleased to hear.

• Pages

  • About me
  • Skylines
  • Poems
    • 3.16
    • A child, wandering
    • Another’s lilac
    • Anticipating farewell
    • Conjuror’s hat
    • Consolations of the Geriatrics’ Porter
    • Contact
    • Dead parents
    • First light
    • Kiss of Life
    • Mathematics of Chrysanthemums
    • Nightscape
    • On the verge of the M40
    • Planting Dorothy’s garden
    • Skating close
    • Sky-clad
    • Small holding
    • Storms
    • The Cake Plate
  • Recent work (2014-19)
    • Exhibitions (2010-2013)
    • Poems 2012-13
    • 2011
    • 2010
    • 2009
    • 2008 and before
  • Gallery
    • Exploding Poetry Gallery
    • Poems from Exploding Poetry
    • Longshaw prize reading
    • Antiphon bookmarks
    • Villages of Poetry: Denby Dale
    • Haiku in school
  • Brief academic cv
  • Links
  • Mordred’s Tooth: Draft 2

• Awards

  2017: Winner, Sentinel Literary Quarterly Prize
  2016: Sentinel Annual Poetry Prize (Second and Highly Commended)
  2014: Winner, Orbis Readers’ Award
  2014: Nominated for Forward and Pushcart prizes
  2013: Southport Writers’ (Winner and Highly Commended)
  2012: Ted Hughes Yorkshire Prize (Winner)
  Cinnamon Poetry Collection Award (Winner)
  Sentinel Literary Quarterly (2nd)
  2011: John Clare Poetry Prize (2nd)
  Two poems nominated for the Forward Prize
  Newark Poetry Prize (2nd)
  Awel Aman Tawe: (3rd)
  Moorland Plant Poetry Competition (2 runners-up)
  2010 : Wasafiri Poetry Prize (Winner)
  Yorkshire Poet Prize (Yorkshire Open)
  Welsh Poetry (4th)
  Northampton Poetry (2nd)
  Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry: (1st)
  2009 : Speakeasy Poetry (1st)
  Coffee House Troubadour (commended)
  Aesthetica Creative Works (finalist, Highly Commended)
  Red Shed Open Poetry (3rd)
  Jacqui Bennett Writers Bureau Poetry (3rd)
  Envoi Poetry (runner up)
  2008: New Writer Poetry Prize (1st)
  2007: City of Derby Poetry Prize (3rd)

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• Blogs I Follow

  • Three Drops from a Cauldron
  • millstonegritblog
  • Kaffeeklatsch
  • Kim Moore Poet
  • 52
  • Jayne Stanton POETRY
  • Oversteps Books
  • Angelina Ayers
  • WordPress.com

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