Essays, Articles
& Reviews

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2024

• Three Reviews: Ruth Padel's Girl (Penguin), Tim Tim Cheng's The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press), Helen Ivory's Constructions of a Witch (Bloodaxe) in The Poetry Society Winter Bulletin.

• Three Reviews: Raymond Atrobus' Signs, Music (Picador), Danez Smith's Bluff (Penguin), Kathleen Jamie's The Keelie Hawk (Picador) in The Poetry Society Autumn Bulletin.

• Three Reviews: Harry Josephine Gile's THEM! (Picador), Tamar Yoseloff's Belief Systems (Nine Arches), Imtiaz Dharker's Shadow Reader (Bloodaxe) in The Poetry Society Summer Bulletin.

• Three Reviews: Victoria Kennefick's egg/shell (Carcanet), Isabel Galleymore's Baby Schema​ (Carcanet), Gillian Clark's The Silence (Carcanet) in The Poetry Society Spring Bulletin.

 

2023​

• Three Reviews: Kwame Dawes' Sturge Town (Peepal Tree Press), Kostya Tsolakis' Greekling (Nine Arches Press), David Wheatley's Child Ballad (Carcanet Press) in The Poetry Society Winter Bulletin.

• 'Chicken Blood: Placing my Traveller Ethnicity in North East England', an illustrated lyric essay, WritersMosaic, Royal Literary Fund.

• Three Reviews: Jacqueline Saphra's Velvel's Violin (Nine Arches), Mary Jean Chan's Bright Fear (Faber), Mary Oliver's Devotions: The Selected Poems (Penguin) in The Poetry Society Autumn Bulletin.

• Three Reviews: Airea D Matthews' Bread & Circus (Picador), Selima Hill's Women in Comfortable Shoes (Bloodaxe), Lisa Kelly's The House of the Interpreter (Carcanet) in The Poetry Society Summer Bulletin.

• Three Reviews: Liz Berry's The Home Child (Chatto), Will Harris' Brother Poem (Granta), Peter Bennett's Naylor & Folly Wood (Bloodaxe) in The Poetry Society Spring Bulletin.

 

2022

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• Review 'Our Earth Inmost': Linda France's The Knucklebone Floor (Smokestack), Pippa Little's Time Begins to Hurt (Arc), and Selena Nwulu's A Little Resurrection (Bloomsbury):The Poetry Review.
   

2021

• 'Poetry as Patrìn', Why I Write Poetry, (Nine Arches Press).
   

2020 

• ‘Putèka to Poetry: A Review of Fury, David Morley’s Sixth Carcanet Collection’, (The Travellers’ Times).

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2017   

• ‘Spots of Time in Andrew Motion’s Destination Norfolk’, Multiples, (Society of Wood Engravers).

• ‘Vignettes to Verse’, 100th Edition, Vol. 25. No.4, (PrintmakingToday).
   

2015

• ‘Considering The Long Journey’, Multiples, (Society of Wood Engravers).