In other news…

Creative expression bringing light in the darker days - a timely celebration of beauty and colour @thehandsale. Jewellery maker Loren Lewis Cole calls it ‘creativity as activism’.

In this month’s issue of The Alchemy Spoon 11 I review Sensitive to Temperature by Serena Alagappan (Smith|Doorstop, New Poets Prize 2022).

My short story ‘Psychology, or The Pram’ is forthcoming in the Katherine Mansfield Society Yearbook 2023 (Edinburgh University Press).

Poems:

Grasse, Provence was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2024 and will be published in the Aesthetica Creative Annual 2024.

Revolution is forthcoming in Finished Creatures 7 (Edge), Winter 2023.

Evening Train is forthcoming in Spelt issue 10 in January 2024.

at night she slips out of her stone dress is forthcoming in Amethyst Review in March 2024 .

I also have an essay on John Donne and Edwin Muir in The Alchemy Spoon 10, which came out in September 2023, and my review of Corrupted Poets’ mixed-media anthology Living with other people was published in Tears in the Fence 78 in August.