Poems
Can be viewed online at:
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'Peeling the Echoes of Eurydice - after Sappho', Ink Sweat & Tears - Greek feature, Day 3
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'Catching my Breath', published in Envoi 2020
'Millstone Grit', 2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award, Third Prize
'Close Your Eyes of Flesh: the loosening of Danaus' is in the voice of Elephantis, one of King Danaus' wives. According to the Greek myth, Danaus ordered his daughters to marry their cousins and kill them on their wedding night. In Hades, as punishment for killing their husbands, the young women were condemned to the endless task of filling a bottomless vessel with water. Their mothers are absent from any tellings of the myth.
This poem imagines Elephantis' revenge: crazed by grief, she treats Danaus as if he were flax, beginning by retting (soaking) him in water.
Danaus is also a genus of butterflies commonly called the monarch butterfly.
First published in Black Balloon, a 2015 anthology of Nottingham writers. A PDF of the poem is available here.
This poem imagines Elephantis' revenge: crazed by grief, she treats Danaus as if he were flax, beginning by retting (soaking) him in water.
Danaus is also a genus of butterflies commonly called the monarch butterfly.
First published in Black Balloon, a 2015 anthology of Nottingham writers. A PDF of the poem is available here.
Individual poems have been published in the following journals or anthologies, available for purchase:
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14 magazine series 2, issue 1
Dark Mountain 24 - Eight Fires Finished Creatures issues 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 Magma 80 – Avatars |
