Poems

Here are a few of my poems which I particularly like:

3.16 (Poetry Nottingham)

A child, wandering (Carillon)

Another’s lilac (Prize winner, City of Derby)

Anticipating farewell  (The New Writer)

Conjuror’s hat (Monkey Kettle)

Consolations of the Geriatrics’ Porter (Words from the Web anthology; Prize winner The Red Shed)

Contact (Skin Deep, anthology)

Dead parents (Iota)

First light (The New Writer)

Kiss of Life (Sentinel Poetry Quarterly)

Loss Cancels Profit (Carillon)

Mathematics of Chrysanthemums (Aspire)

Nightscape (Matter)

On the verge of the M40 (Prize Winner, The New Writer)

Planting Dorothy’s Garden (The North)

Skating close (Orbis, submitted for Forward Prize)

Sky-clad (The Frogmore Papers)

Small holding (Weyfarers)

Storms (Other Poetry)

The Cake Plate (Prize winner, Speakeasy)

White noise in the Yangtze (Earth Love)

Other poems can be found here:

“On the edge of something,” Matter, http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=26394

“Particles“,  Jacqui Bennett Writer’s Bureau: http://www.jbwb.co.uk/poetwin.htm

“Snapshot”, Matter: http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=26393

“The price of chocolate”, Coffee House Poetry Troubadour Prize Website: http://www.coffeehousepoetry.org/poems (Scroll about halfway down a long site)

“Till death”, Northampton Literature Group: http://www.northamptonliteraturegroup.org.uk/2010%20prizewinners.html