Poetry Publications
I have published ten poetry collections:
China and Glass (Bran’s Head Press, 1985)
Lost in the Supermarket (Open Heart, 1987)
Asleep at the Wheel (Amani, 1996)
Selected Short Stories (Hub Editions, 1999)
Foreign Ministry (Hub Editions, 2011)
Bristol: 21 Poems (Amazon, 2017)
Those Other Fields (Palewell Press, 2020)
Stranger (Cinnamon Press, 2021)
Ship’s Log (Bristol Books, 2022)
Fantasia: Lands of Dream (Brussels Review, 2024)
I have also co-edited three multi-authored collections:
Lansdown Poets Anthology 2018, with David Cook and Charles Thompson (Choir Press, 2018)
Planet, with David Cook, Richard Devereux and Charles Thompson (Lansdown Press, 2018)
Asylum, with Charles Thompson and others (Lansdown Press, 2020)
I have had individual poems and groups of poems published in:
Vision On, PN Review, Ariel, Tuba, Labrys, The Rialto, Thames Poetry, Other Poetry, Encounter, Ninth Decade, Full Circle Thirteen, Blind Serpent, Yes!, Mercury, The Puckerbrush Review, Purple Patch, Lines Review, Outposts, Piedmont Literary Review, Barddoni, Joe Soap’s Canoe, The Fiddlehead, Plains Poetry Journal, Orbis, Peace and Freedom, Kansas Quarterly, Spectrum, Poetry Nottingham, Krax, Art Extraordinary, English, The Long Poem Magazine, Oldhamm, Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society, Carillon, swcollective, Gadabout, Light, Literature Today, Raceme, La Questione Romantica, Scarlet Leaf Review, Translating Chronic Pain, Hello Poetry, Poetry24, London Grip, Tigershark, Reach Poetry, Snakeskin, The Raven’s Perch, The Path, Blackbox Manifold, Coe Review, The Kiosk, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Mad Swirl, The Lake, Bindweed, Dempsey and Windle Newsletter, The Dawntreader, Zahara de la Sierra, The Burn Revisited, A Dream of Kinship, The Brussels Review, Sarasvati, Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires, Global Frankenstein, Tears in the Fence, Critical Quarterly, Poetry Space, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, The Cannon’s Mouth, George Orwell Studies, allpoetry, The Poetry Lighthouse
Poems of mine have appeared in various anthologies, including:
The Echoing Gallery, ed. Rachael Boast (Redcliffe Poetry, 2013)
The Colours of Acoustic Night Bristol, ed. Rachael Boast (privately printed, 2014)
The Yeovil Literary Prize 2012 and 2013, ed. Yeovil Community Arts Association, 2015
Lyrically Justified, Vol. 2, ed. Sean Clarke (Arkbound, 2017)
Lansdown Poets Anthology 2018, eds David Cook, David Punter and Charles Thompson (The Choir Press, 2018)
Planet, ads David Cook, Richard Devereux, David Punter and Charles Thompson (Lansdown Press, 2018)
Calyx, eds Martin Rieser and Liz Cashdan (Tangent Books, 2019)
Welling Up: Palewell Press Anthology, ed. Camilla Reeve, (Palewell Press, 2019)
For Colin Brown, ed. Deborah Harvey (privately printed, 2019)
What the Moon was Told, ed. Janice Dempsey (Dempsey & Windle, 2020)
What Next?, ed, Janice Dempsey (Dempsey & Windle, 2020)
Can You Hear the People Sing?, ed. Camilla Reeve (Palewell Press, 2020)
The Best of ‘Mad Swirl’, eds M.H. Clay et al. (Mad Swirl Press, 2020)
The Weather Indoors, ed. Martin Rieser (Tangent Books, 2020)
Postcards from Malthusia, eds Bill Herbert and Andy Jackson (New Boots and Pantisocracies, 2020)
Leave Memory for the Heavens, ed. Bobby Parker (Poetry Space, 2021)
Dear Dylan, eds Anna Saunders and Ronnie Goodyer (Indigo Dreams, 2021)
Horses of a Different Colour, ed. Janice Dempsey (Dempsey & Windle, 2021)
Not Dark Yet, eds Peter Burnett and Richie McCaffery (Lexington Books, 2021)
New Contexts 2, ed. Ian Gouge (Coverstory Books, 2021)
Line Breaks, ed. Ian Gouge (Coverstory Books, 2022)
Fireflies and Flames, ed. Janice Dempsey (Dempsey & Windle, 2022)
New Contexts 3, ed. Ian Gouge (Coverstory Books, 2022)
Midsummer Madness, eds Leilanie Stewart and Joseph Robert (Heavenly Flower Publishing, 2022)
New Contexts 4, ed. Ian Gouge (Coverstory Books, 2022)
New Contexts 5, ed. Ian Gouge (Coverstory Books, 2023)
Washed with Noon, ed. Janice Dempsey (Dempsey & Windle, 2023)
Walking Words, ed. Martin Rieser (Bristol Books, 2024)
Poems in the Key of Hope, ed. Mark Davidson (The Hedgehog Press, 2024)
New Contexts 6, ed. Ian Gouge (Coverstory Books, 2024)
A Little Black Book of Short Poems, ed. Mark Davidson (The Hedgehog Press, 2024)
Bonds, eds Martin Rieser and Ralph Hoyte (Lyra Poetry Festival, 2024)
Surprising Ourselves in Poetry, ed. Philip Gross (privately printed, 2024)
Poems for Wonderland, ed. Mark Davidson (Hedgehog Press, 2024)
Pause: Small Stories, ed. Jonathan Eldridge (New Orientations, 2025)
A number of my poems appear on the website mapyourbristol, and others are available in recorded versions on my 2014 CD, Flashes in the Dark.
