Poetry Publications

Single-author publications 

• The Tipping Line (Matlock: Templar Poetry, 2018). Winner of the 2024 Bermuda Government Literary Award for Poetry (The Cecile N Musson Award)

• Pilgrimage (Matlock: Templar Poetry, 2017). Winner of the 2018 Bermuda Government Literary Award for Poetry (the Cecile N Musson Award) 

• The Beachcomber’s Report (Matlock: Templar Poetry, 2010) Winner of the 2013 Bermuda Government Award for Poetry (the Cecile N Musson Award). Shortlisted for the Irish/Strong Award for Best First Collection (Ireland). 

• Kelpdings (Matlock: Templar Poetry, 2009) Winner of the Templar Poetry Pamphlet Competition

 

As Editor

• Queering the Green: Post 2000-Queer Irish Poetry (Belfast: Lifeboat Press, 2021)

 

Poetry Curations

• Zocalo Public Square: Friday Poem (Sept 2023). Link is to a poem by Damian Smyth. 

• “Poems for Patients”: Saolta Arts in conjunction with University Hospital Galway and Cúirt Festival Galway, 2023.

• “Poetry Clips Archive” for the John Hewitt Society. 2020:  https://www.johnhewittsociety.org/poetry_clips/ 

• “Hour by Hour”, an LGBTQ+ edition of The Poetry Jukebox for 2018 OutBurst Festival, Belfast. Link to Irish Times article. 

• The Seamus Heaney Centre Digital Archive (2011), created as part of my PhD with the School of English, Queen’s University Belfast. Administered by Queen’s University Library. Please note: currupted by hack of QUB mainframe and currently undergoing redesign. 

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Poetry Anthologies (as contributor)

• THE SHOp: An Anthology of Poetry (Liffey Press, 2020), eds. Hilary Wakeman and Hilary Elfick

• The Lea-Green Down (Dublin: Fiery Arrow Press, 2018), ed. Eileen Casey

• Reading the Future: New Writing from Ireland Celebrating 250 Years of Hodges Figgis. (Galway: Arlen House, 2018), ed. Alan Hayes

• Metamorphic: 21st Century Poets Respond to Ovid. (Canberra: Recent Works Press, 2017), eds. Nessa O’Mahony and Paul Munden

• CCEA GCSE Specification in English Literature. CEA Publication, 2017.  (The poem ‘Effacé’ is included on the CEA GCSE Syllabus.) 

• “the future always makes me so thirsty”: New Poets from the North of Ireland. (Belfast: Blackstaff, 2016), eds. Sinéad Morrissey and Stephen Connolly.

• The Bangor Book. (Ards & North Down Borough Council: 2016), ed. Kenneth Irvine

• The Mask of Anarchy. (Matlock: Templar Poetry, 2016), ed Alex McMillen. Reprint of Shelley’s poem with supplementary contemporary poems

• Bermuda Anthology of Poetry: Vol. II. (Hamilton: Bermuda Government, 2011), ed. Kendel Hippolyte

• Landing Places. (Dublin: UCD in association with Dedalus Press, 2010), eds. Borbála Faragó and Eva Bourke

• From a Small Back Room: A Festschrift for Ciaran Carson. (Belfast: Netherlea Press, 2008), ed. Richard Irvine

• Incertus. (Belfast: Netherlea Press, 2007), ed. Richard Irvine. Anthology featuring emerging writers, with accompanying critical commentary. Justin Quinn writes on my work. 

 

Journal Publications:

• Abridged, The Apiary, Black Mountain Review, The Caribbean Writer, Fortnight, iOTA, Junctures, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry & Audience, Revista Almatroz, Sargasso, THE SHOp, Southword, Stand, Ulster Tatler, The Yellow Nib.