Poetry is something I’ve been enjoying doing for more than 15 years but I didn’t start investing in it until around 10 years ago. Here I’ll drop some links to where I’m published and hopefully this will grow over time.
I had three poems published in Issue #2 of The York Journal.
I had poetry published in the very first edition of Confingo Magazine.
I was published into the regular monologue spot in Mslexia. I keep meaning to dig out the edition, but I have so many Mslexia mags on my bookcase that it’s going to be a time consuming job!
I’ve had the fortune of being published in Aah! Magazine twice and as they’re both published online, here are the links to the poems themselves. ‘Flooding in the South West, More Rain to Follow‘ and ‘Shine‘.
No longer available, but I was published on the Royal Philharmonic’s website with my poem ‘Final Mooring in the Submerged Shipyard’, which I wrote as part of a challenge between RHS and Manchester Metropolitan University.
Poetry competitions aren’t something I routinely enter into, but every now and again, I feel the urge.
Rosamond Prize: 2nd Place, 2014
Working with composer Aled Smith, we came first runner’s up at the Rosamond Prize back in 2014, the second year we entered the prize. Aled took one of my poems ‘Utopia for Addicts’ and set the poem to music, collaborating along the way.
Press release: Rosamond Prize Concludes in Live Concert
Poetry performance is something I’m certainly not doing anymore, but it was fun to do at the time. Here are some notes from ‘back in the day’.
The first poetry performance I managed was in June 2012 where I performed with other Manchester Metropolitcan University poets at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. It was a nerve wracking thing, to read my own poetry, something I’d poured over, that came from inside and not just intellectual. It was covered by Aah! Magazine: Manchester Writing School Showcases Creative Writing Talent.
The next two times I performed was as part of a group of poets and fiction writers We4Poets, and again these were at the IABF.
Most memorably, I also performed at Carol Ann Duffy and Friends at Manchester Exchange Theatre in December 2014. It was an amazing evening and to share a stage with the Poet Laureate was special. Most importantly, I made Duffy and the rest of the audience laugh, and there’s a memory I cherish. This was the last time I performed my poetry.
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