Poems: 2008
| 2008 | “Nightscape”, Matter |
| 2008 | “3.16” and “Another’s Lilac, Poetry Nottingham |
| 2008 | “Skating Close”, Orbis |
| 2008 | ”Sanctuary”, and “Depth of Feeling”, Decanto |
| 2008 | “On the Verge of the M40”, The New Writer: The Collection (anthology) |
| 2008 | “Storms”, Other Poetry |
| 2008 | “Subtext”, Salopeot |
Other publications 2008
| Boxing Day | Feature article: “Favourite Things”, Sheffield Telegraph, Boxing Day issue |
Prizes and Awards 2008
| November | Shortlisted as judge for Costa 2008 Book Awards |
| 2008 | “On the Verge of the M40”, first prize winner in The New Writer single poem competition |
| 2008 | Short story: “The Perfect Story”, runner up in The New Writer competition |
Readings 2008
| 2008 | Matter Launch Waterstones, Sheffield |
| 2008 | Vivienne Westwood Exhibition, Millenium Galleries, Sheffield |
| 2008 | Blackwells reading evening, Sheffield |
Poems: 2007
| 2007 | “First Light”, The New Writer |
| 2007 | “A Child Wandering” and “Loss Cancels Profit”, Carillon |
| 2007 | “Bathetic Fallacy”, “Kiss of Life”, “Our Mortal Coil”, Sentinel Literary Quarterly |
| 2007 | “Ecology of the large blue butterfly”, Earth Love |
| 2007 | “White Noise on the Yangtze”, Earth Love |
| 2007 | “Sparks”, The Ugly Tree |
| 2007 | “Between you and me, communication’s broken down”, The Interpreter’s House |
Prizes and Awards 2007
| 2007 | “Another’s Lilac”, 3rd prize in City of Derby poetry competition |
| 2007 | Poem “The Cake Plate” shortlisted in Plough Poetry competition |
| 2007 | Short story “Ties” shortlisted in Mike Haywood Short Story competition |
Readings 2007
| October | Readings at Prizegiving, City of Derby poetry competition, Derby |
| 2007 | Readings at various Words Aloud Open Mike events (Runaway Girl, Sheffield) |
Pre-2007
| Poems published in Iota (2006) Poems in E-Sheaf (2003-7) First prize: Off the Shelf poetry competition, 1998 Poem ”Bagshot Louis” in The Singing Time (a novel by Maida Stanier: 1975) Twice awarded the James prize (a student literary prize at King’s College, Cambridge) 1972,1973 Various poems and stories in Sixth Form Opinion (national student magazine) 1969-1971 Editor and contributor to school magazines The Lily and Scope, and created my own poetry magazine Visibility, at Magdalen College School, Oxford in the late 1960s |
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