My next poetry collection is due out from Carcanet in January 2025. You can watch the launch event for Red Gloves (2020) here.
Links to other publications, including criticism and interviews, can be found below.
Links to other publications, including criticism and interviews, can be found below.
2024
Six poems in PN Review 278, Vol. 50, No. 6. 'The Young Comedian Enrols at Clown School' in Magma 89. 'Multiverse Valentine' in The Spectator, 15 June. 'OM' in The Spectator, 8 June. 'At Home with Emily Brontë' in The Spectator, 25 May. 'All My Joy' in The Spectator, 11 May. Reading: Ware Poets, 10 May. Reading: Byron Festival, Trinity College, Cambridge, 20 April. 'Running the Planet Trail' and 'Song' in Bad Lilies, Issue 18. 2023 'Leaving' and 'The Mainland' in The Spectator, 28 October. 'Daffodils push through...' in Contraflow: Lines of Englishness 1922-2022 (Renard Press). Three poems in Bad Lilies, Issue 15. Two poems in Anthropocene. Podcast: Poetry Break with Julia Copus, Royal Literary Fund audio series. 'Procrastination Island' in The Spectator, 29 April. 'She Wishes for the Cliffs of Devon' in The Spectator, 11 March. 'Concentrate' and 'That' in The Tangerine, Issue 12. 2022 Six poems in PN Review 268, Vol. 49, No. 2. 'Entropy' and 'Never Leave the Ship' in Magma 84. Three poems in Bad Lilies, Issue 9. 'Baroque' in The Spectator, 2 July. 'Joining the Spiders' in The Spectator, 18 June. 'On Keeping Moving', Gladstone's Library blog. Reading: Gladstone's Library, 12 May. 'Annie, with Starlings' in bath magg, Issue 9. 'The woman at no. 80' in The Spectator, 30 April. 'The Wandering Albatross' in The Spectator, 16 April. 'Hazelling the Field' in The Spectator, 19 March. 'Launch Night' in The Spectator, 12 March. 'Poetry' and 'The Devil' in Anthropocene. 2021 'Ickworth' in Hollow Palaces: An Anthology of Modern Country House Poems (Liverpool University Press). 'On Charlotte Mew: interview with Julia Copus' in PN Review 260, Vol. 47, No. 6. '4,000 Guineas' (on Matthew Prior) in PN Review 259, Vol. 47, No. 5. Introduction to Jennifer Edgecombe, Carcanet blog. 2020 Reading: Poetry in Aldeburgh (online), 14 November. Reading: Smorgasbord Poetry for Beirut Emergency Appeal (online), 20 September. Reading: Red Gloves launch (online), 8 July. Review of Charlotte Mew: Selected Poetry and Prose in the TLS, 26 June. Interviewed by Adam Crothers for the Carcanet blog. Red Gloves (Carcanet). 'The Studio' in the TLS, 29 May. 'The Desire Path' in The Spectator, 16 May. 'Small Acts' in the TLS, 15 May. 'Intimations (Nature Morte)', Fitzwilliam Museum Feast & Fast exhibition website. 'The Drawing Room', London Review Bookshop blog (Poem of the Week). 2019 'Should Anyone Be Left Alive' in bath magg, Issue 2. 'My hand into their hands: On editing Jennings', Carcanet blog. Reading: Wren Library, Cambridge Festival of Ideas, 19 October. Elizabeth Jennings: New Selected Poems (as editor; Carcanet). 'Barbecues' in Live Canon 2019 Anthology (competition shortlisting; Live Canon). Reading: Sea Fever Literary Festival, Wells-Next-the-Sea, 11 May. Reviews of Zaffar Kunial's Us and Fiona Moore's The Distal Point in the TLS, 25 January. Five poems in PN Review 245, Vol. 45, No. 3. 2018 Reading: Poetry in Aldeburgh, 3 November. Reading: Waterstones Cambridge for National Poetry Day, 4 October. Review of Gillian Allnutt's wake, in the TLS, 25 September. Reading: Tower Poetry Summer School, Oxford, 28 August. 'Glamour' in Ambit 233. Two poems in St John's College Poetry Pamphlet, Issue 2. Three poems in Taking Note: Poetry in Moments (Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination). Reading: Festival of Suffolk Poetry, Stowmarket, 26 May. 'Red Gloves' in the TLS, 23 May. Reading: Trinity Arts Week (with Simon Armitage), Oxford, 8 May. 'Sunflowers' in The Scores, Issue 4. Reading: Poetry Wivenhoe, 26 April. Interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Front Row, 25 January. Criticism: 'The Cult of the Noble Amateur' in PN Review 239, Vol. 44, No. 3. 2017 Interviewed on Paul Stephenson's blog, 9 December. Reading: 'Taking Note - Poetry in Moments' project, Cambridge, 1 December. 'Invisible Man' and 'A History of Minor Conflict' in The Fenland Reed, Issue 5. Reading: Trinity Poets launch, Trinity College, Cambridge, 7 October. Commission: BBC Local Radio for National Poetry Day. Reading: New Poetries VI Reunion, Waterstones Gower St, London, 26 September. 'Peg,' and 'Rules for Weather (London and South East)' in The North 58. Three poems and a report in PN Review 236, Vol. 43, No. 6. Reading: St John's College Poetry Festival, Cambridge, 19 June. 'That you will not betray me' (review of the film A Quiet Passion), Carcanet blog. Interviewed for BBC TV's Look East. Seven poems in Trinity Poets (Carcanet). Criticism: 'The Poet and the Liberal', Carcanet blog. Reading: Fenland Poet Laureate Awards (guest judge), 31 March. Interviewed by Adam Crothers for The Literateur, 29 March. Six poems in The Literateur, 28 March. Reading: St John's College, Cambridge, 10 March. Reading: Sudbury Cafe Poets, 8 March. Reading: Cambridge Poets for Oxfam, 7 March. Talk/reading: 'Free Verse? The liberal spirit in poetry', Oxford University Church, 15 February. 2016 'Economics' in Poetry Ireland Review 120. Reading: Poetry in Aldeburgh, 6 November. Interviewed by Ben Rogers for The Poetry School blog. 'Culling Jam' and 'Grasmere Early' in The Fenland Reed, Issue 3. 'Turning' featured in the Guardian (the Saturday Poem), 29 October. 'Saturday Morning, Gorilla Kingdom' featured in the Financial Times, 15 October. 'Party' featured in Berfrois. Reading: CB1, Cambridge, 27 September. The Met Office Advises Caution (Carcanet). Criticism: On Carola Luther's 'deersuddenly' in The North 56. 'Insomniac' featured on E-Verse. Reading: Sunday Poetry Salon (with Adam Crothers), LRB Bookshop, London, 31 July. 'Rabbit risks all' in footnotes, Issue 2. 'Ferry Lane' and 'Swing Song' in Angle, Issue 8. Renga contribution (collaboration via the Koppel Project). Review of Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith in PN Review 228, Vol. 42, No. 4. 2015 Reading: Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 'New Voices', 8 November. 'At the End of the Day' in Travelling Ladders (The Poetry Trust). Reading: New Poetries VI launch, CB1, Cambridge, 27 October. 'Jetsam / Flotsam' and 'On the Proposed Bridge over Ditton Meadow' in The Fenland Reed, Issue 1. Criticism: On Ben Rogers's 'Mackerel Salad', Carcanet New Poetries blog. 'After rain' in the Crabbe Poetry Prize Anthology (Suffolk Poetry Society). 'Sportsman' in The Eagle, Vol. 97 (Poetry in the Archives competition). 'Tilt' in Poems on the Buses for Guernsey Literary Festival, September. 'Advent' and 'Long Jump' in The North 54. Reading: Lantern-lit Poetry, Samovar Tea House, Ely, 23 July. Reading: New Poetries VI launch, LRB Bookshop, London, 7 July. Eleven poems in New Poetries VI: An Anthology (Carcanet). ‘Triptych’ in Magma 61. 2014 Reading: Cambridge Poetry Collection, St John’s College, 23 November. Reading: The Polar Museum, Cambridge, 4 November. ‘Antarctica’ and ‘Emperor Penguin’ in PN Review 220, Vol. 41, No. 2 (The Polar Muse supplement). Commission: The Polar Muse. Review of Maurice Riordan’s The Water Stealer in PN Review 220, Vol. 41, No. 2. Reviews of Anne Compton's Alongside and Wendy Cope's Family Values in PN Review 219, Vol. 41, No. 1. Reading: Trinity Poetry Workshop, Trinity College, Cambridge, 12 June. ‘Letter from China’ and ‘To Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)’ in Die Gazette, No. 41. Review of Tim Kendall’s The Art of Robert Frost in PN Review 215, Vol. 40, No. 3. Reading: CB1, Cambridge, 23 January. 2013 ‘Here’ in Journal of Modern Wisdom, Vol. 2. ‘Two Bats’ and ‘Running in Winter’ in The North 50. Eight poems in PN Review 212, Vol. 39, No. 6. 2012 ‘The Hare’ in Mslexia, Issue 55 (competition runner-up). ‘Emmeline’s Ascent’ in Einstein & the Art of Mindful Cycling (Leaping Hare Press). 2011 ‘Lake’ in Journal of Modern Wisdom, Vol. 1. 2010 ‘From a Bike’ in Cycle Lifestyle, Issue 2, Spring 2010. 2009 ‘Hawk-eye’ in the Crabbe Poetry Prize Anthology (Suffolk Poetry Society). |