IN OTHER news…

Early morning in the foothills of the French Pyrenees. I last came here 3 years ago and am glad to be back in the mountains at last after 2 years of lockdown. We climbed up high, as day was breaking, to watch the sun rise.

In this month’s issue of Alchemy Spoon 7, I review Litanies by Naush Sabah (Guilemot Press) and Paper Crusade by Michelle Penn (Arachne Press). I also consider space in Anne Carson’s long poem The Glass Essay. You can read the essay here.

The Red Doors’ anthology Thresholds (Clayhanger Press) will be published in October. I have 3 poems in it. The launch will be at The Harrison near King’s Cross on 30th November. 7pm

My poem Labyrinth was shortlisted for the Live Canon Poetry Prize and will be published in the Live Canon 2022 Anthology in October. The launch is on October 11th online. I wrote the poem after walking a labyrinth in Surrey woodland earlier this year, and reading a collection of essays by Freya Stark called Perseus in the Wind (1948), from which the poem’s epigram is drawn: The truth is that constancy of a sort is an unescapable virtue; for the things that the heart is seeking, if they are multiple at all, are very few; they are found and lost many times over with changing names…

2022 Bridport Prize shortlist 3 poems

2022 Paper Swans Pamphlet Prize longlist