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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EVENTS
Wymondham Words 27th-30th November 2025 Saturday 29th at 7pm, Becket's Chapel, Wymondham An Evening of Poetry and Music https://wymwords.wordpress.com/ In the first half, poets from the #57 collective, Alice Willitts, Christina Thatcher, Rachel Goodman and Elvire Roberts, read from their new collections. In the second half, Black Morrison and the Hosepipe Band perform Shingle Street. |
2026
Women Say Stuff fundraiser for International Women's Day, 8th March 2026 City Arts, Nottingham NG1 1FH Recent publications 'Living the Dream' in the anthology Apocalyptic Landscape, ed. Steve Ely. 'The Mechanics of Secrets' published in More Song 2025 anthology, ed. Tom Branfoot |
