Poetry
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In my debut pamphlet North by Northnorth, I go off-compass to find the vanishing point towards True North. I tread my way through queerness in all its meanings: eccentric, Queer, questionable, unwell and downright weird. My poems ask how a person can bear to be in this world and still find true expression of themselves in their complex flux of identities. There is guidance from Daoism and Buddhism, but above all from the natural world, as questions shapeshift to emerge as insects, mammals, cephalopods, birds.
Published by Five Leaves Press and available via Five Leaves or any bookshop. See here for reviews. |
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My poems have appeared in a range of publications including 14 Magazine, Dark Mountain, Envoi, Finished Creatures, Magma, Reliquiae, The Rialto, Strix, Tentacular and the following anthologies: Candlestick Press Ten Poems About Getting Older, Fragmented Voices The Language of Salt, Apocalyptic Landscape, ed. Steve Ely, More Song 2025, ed. Tom Branfoot.
I perform many of my poems from memory to allow words to find a different life off the page. |
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Beginning in February 2020 and throughout the pandemic, Rachel Goodman and I worked together to write an entirely co-created poetry book called Knee to Knee. It is available to order direct from Dialect Press or any bookshop.
We question the ways in which women have been written over a lifetime, asking - are they fit for purpose? We rip up the rule book, ditching versions of self that have pinned us to the page. What emerges is a witty, raw, sometimes heart-wrenching invitation to inhabit this world in a new language. See here for reviews. Listen to Rachel and myself read poems and talk about the co-writing process on Kathleen McPhilemy's podcast Poetry worth hearing, Ep.36. Contact us for readings or workshops. |
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Fri 16th - Sat 17th October 2026
DOBUNNI POETRY FESTIVAL: Featuring Pascale Petit and Alison Brackenbury Stroud, Gloucestershire Reading with Rachel Goodman as part of the Dialect poetry panel, Date/time tbc. The festival will run across two days, 16–17 October 2026, bringing together headline poets of national standing with the exceptional talent already thriving in the region, platforming poets and publishers from the west / south west. Special offer Early Bird weekend tickets, covering access to events on both Friday 16th and Saturday 17th October are now on sale! Grab them while you can! |
