This is out now and I’d be over the moon if you considered getting a copy. Thanks as always @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/Stand-Corner...

So happy that some of my favourite poets and authors had such kind words for my new poetry chapbook. Thank you @susanlleary.bsky.social! If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea is out tomorrow from @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social 🌊

I’ve a poetry chapbook coming out in a week so putting it out there, if anyone's interested in reviewing it or is hosting a reading and looking for readers please hmu. Also, sorry if I don't get the ratio of interesting & selfless: self-promotion right on here, I am but an idiot

New one up on the excellent new issue of @paperboatswriters.bsky.social 🐦 (🔗 below)

I am a very serious poet. Thanks to Blood + Honey Lit for publishing this along with another poem called Bloom. Lots of good work up there. ✈️

true story

Excited for an acceptance from the mighty @westtradereview.bsky.social 👍🏽✨

Photograph of my actual soul leaving my body during an online reading I much prefer peopley readings where my soul stays put

You know a book is good when it has a coffee stain on it within a couple of days! This pamphlet from @victoriaspires.bsky.social on @salopress.bsky.social is so good; rich, varied, and always illuminating (soi-lui a personal fave)

Thanks to Azarao Lit for publishing 'Bad Mantra' in their latest issue, which is full of great writing! 🟩

You don't need to have read it to get the joke www.worldofmoose.com/products/tri...

Had such a good time writing football/soccer poems for Michigan Quarterly's special soccer folio, subs open until the end of the month. I reflected on growing up in 90s Northern Ireland, how football tops held currency, clear symbols of identity (not necessarily for the good) ⚽️

Pleased to feature in this beautiful little anthology from Temporal Lobe (thanks to @poetjohncompton.bsky.social for publishing this poem originally)

This one pretty much sums up the relationship I have with poetry and - who am I kidding? - with myself 😬😬. Thanks so much to @poolpartymag.com for publishing it recently; they’re doing really cool stuff 📱

Just want to let everyone know my reading period is open for acceptances, praise and sanguine nods of the head like you're doing alright kid

Have a new poem about prop comedy, shitty childhoods and The Mighty Boosh up at @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social! farewelltransmission.net/2025/10/in-t...

For the @havehashad.com call I'm working on something so haddy I've broken the official had-speed barrier into a place that, if you squint, looks like a fusty British Library that forbids both heart and levity.

Just found out @librelit.bsky.social have nominated my little flash thingummy ‘The Cost of Living Underwater’ for Best of the Net!

RIP Yorkshire poet and playwright, Tony Harrison. This is one of my favourite poems, perfectly illustrating the depths of emotion you can find in everyday language, in approaching writing with humility and honesty

Writing is the best, creating pasts that didn't break you or futures that might, creating worlds and making sense. That's extremely earnest but sometimes in the doing it hits you afresh.

My Beowulf

A reminder from @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social today, if one were needed, how amazing @toddedillard.bsky.social is www.onlypoems.net/poets/todd-d...

There's a call from one of the big lit journals for material on the subject of football (soccer) but I can't remember which one. Can anyone help?

This is my New York poem. It's also one in which I misquote Kent Brockman.

Hi (not prone to hyperbole but THIS JACKET HAS ACTUALLY CHANGED MY LIFE)

Anyone ever shape up to submit to a lit journal only to be put off by a series of pre-scolds masquerading as submission guidelines?

Follow @barracudacore.bsky.social’s The Cattle on Substack if you have it. Lovely work from John Compton, Andrew K Peterson and J.D. Smith up there today, alongside this silliness

Thrilled to say my new chapbook will be released 14th Nov by the good folk at Inkfish Press. Can’t wait to share these pieces. Also stoked by the kind words writers I admire have bestowed on this little collection (more of that later!) 📖🌊

So pleased to have this reprint in the first issue of @thomasonianmag.bsky.social alongside great work by @sreelekha2024.bsky.social @shauricherie.bsky.social and David Kenny. Do check it out.

What a feeling being in anyone’s top 5 of anything!

Love a doggy poem! So pleased to be in this cool pop up issue from @mosspuppymag.bsky.social so do check it out 🐕 🐾

Ever read an old poem and think: oh. RIP William Carlos Williams, you would have loved Being Online.

I love HAD (radical sentiment, I know); so pleased they took this weird list poem

Pretty happy with a semifinal place for this poem in Wergle Flomp Humour Poetry Comp; means it was in top 56 of over 5000 entries!

Once more for the evening (afternoon? timezones are difficult) crowd. Features poems first published in @ex-puritan.bsky.social @redogrereview.bsky.social @the-engine-idling.bsky.social

What a day! My third💀from @havehashad.com, and Anatomy of an Axe - a micro chapbook with poems by me and ace illustrations by Ysabel Hinrichs - is out as part of @ghostcitypress.bsky.social fab summer series. No compelling way to say this but it'd be swell if you checked it out (link below)

I made a unforgivably egregious error when submitting. I uploaded the writing file where I was meant to upload the bio. THANK GOD the editor sent me a message telling me to 'be serious'

Thanks to @poetjohncompton.bsky.social for publishing this on his brilliant Cataloguing Poetry Substack; there's new work up there daily. Not tyrna be all Jeff Goldblum but this one was... uhh... hard to write.

I don't know, too earnest? Thanks to the amazing folk at Roi Fainéant for publishing.

A wee one for @alanparrywriter.co.uk of @thebrokenspine.co.uk's #PoemsAbout. Today's subject: glamour

When you get into a mag that has published Margaret Atwood and EJ Pratt but *this* is your poem 😩 😂 💀

"You would call this foreshadowing but it’s already happening" Loved @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social's chapbook of perfectly poised prose poems from @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social. Evocative, precise and full of a truth it wears lightly. Pick this one up if you get the chance!

How amazing is this?! Not only has Ysabel Hinrichs nailed it with the cover she was kind enough to do four amazing illustrations for the book itself. Out at the start of Aug as part of @ghostcitypress.bsky.social summer micro-chapbook series 🌱 🦴

A new one in issue 2 of Azarao Lit mag 🤒🧠

Stoked that my story The Dog That Hates Weddings has been nominated for Best of the Net by Citywide Lunch, especially when they routinely publish writers I absolutely love!

Thanks so much to @zreayellers.bsky.social for publishing this one in the ever ace @dishsoapquart.bsky.social

What do we think, is $7 too high a submission fee for 4 poems?

I'm a big fan of Derry-based lit/art mag @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social; honoured to have a poem in the latest issue, which is full of great work so do check it out.

Odd stance ✅ Reliance on phone ✅ Blurry aura ✅ Has to be me reading a poem