Pamphlet

Sometimes Real Love Comes Quick & Easy (ignitionpress 2024) *A Poetry Book Society Autumn 2024 Pamphlet Pick*

single poems

“SOROR AVE VIVAS IN DEO” featured in Women in York, a film produced by the Yorkshire and North East Film Archive and York St John University.

“Jellyfish”, “Stranger Days’”, and “Meridian” in Blood & Cord: Writers on Early Parenthood edited by Abi Curtis (Emma Press, 2023).

“it’s 1994 & this brown girl thinks she smells like teen spirit” and “American Smooth” in Magma 85: Poems for Schools edited by Ashley Hickson Lovence, Gill Ward, and Laurie Smith (2023)

“Pulled” published via the Aurora Prize for Writing (2022)

“On the Occasion of My Son Gumming His First Drumstick” in Oxford Poetry 093 (Winter 21/22)

“SOROR AVE VIVAS IN DEO” & “The Rum Tasting of the Century” in Black Lines: The Journal of Black British Writing, Issue 1 (2021)

poetry Readings/talks

Online launch of Sometimes Real Love Comes Quick & Easy (ignitionpress 2024) w/ Eric Yip and Eira Murphy.

“Sounds Like Teen Spirit: Writing Through Nirvana’s Nevermind” Other Worlds: Contemporary Ekphrastic Poetry w/ Emily Berry, Anthony V. Capildeo, Alycia Pirmohamed, Padraig Regan, and Kandace Siobhan Walker (The Open University, May 2024)

Rise Up! w/ Charlotte Shevchenko-Knight and Alex Mepham (2023)

York Literature Festival Poetry reading w/ Shash Trevett and Leo Boix (2023)

Poetry in Aldeburgh | Poetry London Celebrates 100 Issues with editor André Naffis-Sahely, Rachel Long, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Momtaza Mehri and Jemilea Wisdom-Baako (2021)

Other things

Review of Sometimes Real Love Comes Quick & Easy - Poetry Review (Winter 2024)

Co-organiser:  Ledbury Poetry Critics Scheme (2021; with Sandeep Parmar, Sarah Howe, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Alycia Pirmohamed & Dave Coates)

“Finalist: Aurora Prize for Writing (2022; judged by Georgina Wilding)

Nominee: Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship (2021)

Shortlisted: Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize (2021; judged by Fiona Benson)

Winner: Poetry London Mentorship Scheme Award (2020; mentored by Rachel Long)