Poet · Essayist · Chair of Ledbury Poetry

Writing from the Welsh Marches, on land the Dymock poets walked.

Poems of landscape and legacy, of work, water and the things we maintain.

Recent poems

London Grip · New Poetry 61

Top path

Ink Sweat & Tears

Again

Poems have appeared in Acumen, Anthropocene, Ink Sweat & Tears, London Grip, Poetry Wales, The Ekphrastic Review and The Honest Ulsterman, among others.

Essays and craft

On Substack

Beyond Solitude

Personal essays, and the poems and writing worth passing on.

On Substack

The Cutting Room

Poems taken apart to see how they work, and where they fail.