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2026

Heavy Feather Review • Two poems (forthcoming)

swifts & slows (Issue 27) • Two poems (forthcoming)

2025

Full House Literary • Transient, tourmaline

Atrium • Salt Line

RIC JournalRefresher

Expat PressDream bird

Trampoline (Issue 29.8) • To want nothing more than absolute clarity (scroll down)

The Broken Spine (Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025, p. 19) • Shyly shying away

High Horse • Five poems

Soft Union • Flights

ē·rā/tiō • Moon cycle / Echo chamber

Moss Trill • Motor Skills

Apocalypse Confidential • To move or exist in a pattern of lines crossing something or each other (criss-cross)

Red Ogre Review (Issue 31) • Three poems

The Penn Review (Issue 74) • A Sort of Proposition

DON’T SUBMIT! • Brain drain / Flare

La Piccioletta Barca • Again, again

Burning House Press • Three poems (for ‘Inanimism’ series)

Vilas Avenue (Issue 7) • Reflections on the Leaf Area Index

ē·rā/tiō • Mariana Trench

Osmosis Press • A Relative Play of Wax, Haze

BULL • Two Stories

Full House Literary • Sweeter grows the day

RIC Journal • Grain

Boats Against The Current • Harebell

MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 27) • Two poems (one nominated for Best Small Fictions 2026)

The Alchemy Spoon (Issue 14, p. 53) • Speed Geology of the British Isles (print only)

DON’T SUBMIT! • ‘Blessed are the Hours of Emptiness’ (Jonas Mekas). Discuss.

2024

Trampoline (Issue 25.6) • The Waters of the Lower Palaeolithic (scroll down)

Meniscus (Issue 12.2, p. 196) • Quintet of Blue Haiku

Red Ogre Review (Issue 26) • notes on night-fall * haiku

Ranger Magazine (Issue 6) • Three prose poems

swifts & slows (issue 24) • Winged Triptych from Soft to Hard / Cantation

Stone Poetry Quarterly • Two poems

Silly Goose Press (Issue 3) • Two poems

Subliminal Surgery • times new romance / arials

JAKEMidsummer Commoner + Rememberary

Star 82 Review (Issues 12.3 & 13.2 anthology) • What the applicant could improve on

Roi Fainéant (issue 72) • The Secretary of State for the Heavens (archived)

Little Old Lady • ‘Veggie Tales’ (or two stories about anthropomorphic vegetables with a clear moral message)

Ink Sweat & Tears • Mr F (Of Supple Mind)