My contributor copy has arrived …

I’ll be reading poems from Exit Strategy at the Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester, on the 19th March, alongside three amazing poets. Join us for an evening of words and art @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @ouliterature.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/four-poets...

Pleased to have a poem up at Columbia Journal: www.columbiajournal.org/poetry-column

We had a great night at @goldenthreadni.bsky.social for the launch of Abridged Adrenochrome last night! Thanks to everyone!

My contributor copy of @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social just arrived! Many thanks to the editors for including my poem and producing such a beautiful issue. Amazing artwork by Mark Tamer.

Our new issue is online and free to read. Go see! If you like it and have a spare quid or two, we'd be grateful for a donation! You can here: www.abridged.zone/obtaining-ab... Ta!

Many thanks to @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social for publishing my poem ‘The Onset’ in the Adrenochrome issue. I love the images by Mark Tamer. www.abridged.zone/mark-tamer-p...

I’ll be reading poems from Exit Strategy at the Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester, on the 19th March, alongside three amazing poets. Join us for an evening of words and art @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @ouliterature.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/four-poets...

Afternoon. We're in Belfast at the @goldenthreadni.bsky.social in Belfast on Thursday 5th February for our Adrenochrome launch. Come say hallo, grab a free copy and see some groovy art! Image by Mark Tamer. @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social

Today's the first day of National Grief Awareness Week. To start the week, why not check out Patrick Wright's poetry collection - Exit Strategy? www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page... #GriefAwareness #griefpoetry #griefwriting

Delighted to have a poem accepted by The Frogmore Papers - one of particular personal significance on #loss #grief #widowhood @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social #poetry #poetrycommunity

Many thanks to Betsy Thomas for the wonderful review of Exit Strategy in Mortality journal @ouliterature.bsky.social @openthanatology.bsky.social @ouhealtharts.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

The Broken Sleep Books Anthology 2025 gathers standout, risk-taking writing from every publication of the year, spanning poetry, non-fiction and fiction. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Excited to have poems included in Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 thebrokenspine.co.uk/product/sele...

Delighted to have a poem in the next issue of Southword

Happy to have received this nomination

With classes underway, I’ve switched from essays to exams. But with the death of the student essay (RIP, slain by ChatGPT), there’s a larger human tragedy: an erosion of critical cognition and the creation of two sharply divided classes of people: those who learn how to think and those who don’t:

I also have two poems in this new anthology edited by Charlotte Cosgrove. The quality of these books - inside and out - is so good. Find it on Amazon.

Delighted to have a poem included in this excellent anthology - well worth a look: www.writeoutloud.net/books/

Our new issue is now available on Amazon, with free shipping to select locations. (This is the paperback version. Glossy magazine version is on our website.) Enjoy! 💚 Link below

Many thanks to Paul Brookes for interviewing me on my collection Exit Strategy. The interview can be found at The Wombwell Rainbow: thewombwellrainbow.com/2025/08/22/t...

Pleased to see copies of Exit Strategy today @chorltonbookshop.bsky.social These are now signed copies should anyone want one. Thanks for your support. @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

Pleased to have a review of Exit Strategy in Dream Catcher (51) @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

Pleased to have a poem and accompanying exploded essay in the latest issue of The Madrigal - X: Discursion now available to order: www.themadrigalpress.com/issues

Thank you @magma It was a joy and honour to read my poem at the launch event for Issue 92

Poetry (cont): Elizabeth Loudon, Pattie McCarthy, Ross McCleary, Mick McGann-Jones, Marty McKenna, David Rutherford, Claire Thom, Patrick Wright Nonfiction: Flora Beagley, Marianne Daigh, Attracta Fahy, Ciara McVeigh, Pat Noxolo Art: Edward Lee Photography: Brian Michael Barbeito Plays: Jane Idrissi

Please join us to celebrate the launch of Magma 92 - 'Ownership' Wed 16 July 7pm. An eclectic evening of readers includes Martyn Crucefix, Jan Heritage, D A Prince, Peter Daniels, Keith Jarrett and Paul Fenn. bit.ly/4lhG0q1

Full list of contributors for upcoming Issue 4 - minus the typo. (It’s the typos that keep us humble btw) New issue 31 July, in print and digital on our website.

Magma 92: Ownership is now out and includes one of my recent poems: magmapoetry.com/latest-issue/

Memory drifts between cities and dreamscapes in Patrick Wright / @arainbowpoet.bsky.social's painful meditation on love, absence, and the paper-thin moments that remain. Read now inksweatandtears.co.uk/patrick-wrig... #InkSweatandTears #Submission #PoetryCommunity

Pleased to have a new poem in The Amphibian issue 8 - available now: theamphibianlit.wordpress.com/shop/

‘Exit Strategy explores how a surviving partner might navigate an afterlife, one that has to adjust to a major loss, while trying to make sense of that loss and respond to bereavement.’ Many thanks @emmalee1.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

So grateful for the reviews and endorsements for Exit Strategy. Thank you to everyone for the kind words and for reading the book with such care and attention. Available now @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social #poetry #poetrycommunity #poems

‘This book … is immensely powerful and immensely ambitious; its ambition held in the way it maintains, with real deftness, both the centripetal and the centrifugal.’ - Ian Pople www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page... @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social

Many thanks to Ian Pople for this review of Exit Strategy thehighwindowpress.com/category/rev...? @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @godzillakent.bsky.social

Guest poet at acaciapublications.co.uk/2025/04/06/a... Many thanks to Fokkina McDonnell Anselm Kiefer's art as inspiration. @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #art #writing #creativity

Hey everyone. Lovely indie publisher @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social are appealing to everyone to BUY A BOOK to support them. The way it works is that they get some money to keep them publishing, and you get a book! Massive win-win! www.brokensleepbooks.com/books

Emma Lee reviews Exit Strategy @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/03/19/e...

One of the best sounds in the world is that of books dropping from a letterbox! Have just received these from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social ! Read poetry! Support small presses! Literacy is power! @rushikawick.bsky.social @arainbowpoet.bsky.social #HelenTaithCurtis

Whenever I speak up about being working-class in the arts, or share my experiences, I always get some classplaining back. People who aren't working-class keen to tell me how I should feel or tell me they're middle-class but have 'struggled with money' in the past www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Originally published in @dustpoetry.bsky.social

Exit Strategy moves through the cycles of loss - capturing the shifts between denial, anger, acceptance, and the quiet moments in between. Grief is not a straight path, but a series of overlapping states. Out now through @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

This poem was recently published in The Four Faced Liar:

Congratulations @rushikawick.bsky.social @meadowheadpoet.bsky.social @arainbowpoet.bsky.social and @scouttzofiya.bsky.social for the launch of their poetry books tonight. A brilliant evening!

My article on #ekphrasis is now available to read in the latest issue of Writing in Practice: www.nawe.co.uk/writing-in-e...

ONLINE LAUNCH: Come along to our January 2024 online launch, with readings from @scouttzofiya.bsky.social, @rushikawick.bsky.social, @meadowheadpoet.bsky.social, Cat Woodward, and @arainbowpoet.bsky.social. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1139782483...

I'm thrilled to announce that I will be reading from my forthcoming collection, Exit Strategy, at the Broken Sleep January launch event (on the 29th of January). You can book your spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

Another poem from my forthcoming collection, #ExitStrategy, published by @brokensleep #poetry #poetrycommunity Pre-orders available now: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...