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. The archive was corrupted by a hack of the QUB mainframe and the university refused to restore the archive as it was submitted for the PhD. However, a solution has been negotiated with the Seamus Heaney Centre and recordings can now be accessed, but only by first contacting the SHC and then listening to recordings at the Centre. That is to say, the recordings are no longer publicly accessible as designed for the PhD. 

 

Poetry Anthologies (as contributor)

• Home on the Range: Poems of the Queer Pastoral. (Fourteen Poems, forthcoming 2027). ed. Caleb Nicols

• Anthology of Textures (a James Merrill Centenary Conference publication: Mirabelle Press, Open Editions, 2026) Eds. David Schulz and Joanna Scott.

• 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. The anthology featuring emerging writers, with accompanying critical commentary. Justin Quinn writes about my work. 

 

Journal Publications:

• Abridged, The Apiary, The Bermudian, Black Mountain Review, The Caribbean Writer, Fortnight, Howl, iOTA, Junctures, La Piccioletta Barca, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, Poetry Jukebox (digital), Poetry Salzburg, Poetry & Audience, Revista Almatroz (digital), Sargasso (forthcoming), THE SHOp, Southword, Stand, Ulster Tatler, The Yellow Nib, Zócalo Public Square (digital)