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Poems

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Published & coming soon 

Geometries of motion, Streetcake Magazine, Issue 91

Challenger, Short unmade film, Catchment Journal, Issue 2

Fertility investigation, Ultrasound 1, The Alchemy Spoon, Issue 12

Marinara, Hold my hand, In class, Sex objects, Unusual Work, Collective Effort Press, Issue 37

Paris, Christmas 2016, Duo Poetry by Women, Linen Press

Small Acts, Riverbeds & Camping, Catchment Journal, Issue 1

Notes from Greenland, The Suburban Review, Issue 32

Invisible Wasps & Untitled (parliament), Confluence Magazine, Issue 15

Feeling sexy, New Word Order, Issue 7

Touch free wash, Island Magazine, Issue 169

When we never left our houses, Liquid Amber Poetry Prize Anthology, 2023

Night worker, questionnaire, Poetry Wales, Issue 59.2

Gentle Creatures, Uppagus, Issue 59

The eye, Victorian Writer: Lunar (Issue September – November 2023)

Jehovah, Uppagus, Issue 57

We are young and delicious, Hope is the thing Anthology, Lucent Dreaming, 2022

Creatures, Acumen, Issue 106

The raincoats worn by the women we love, Mono, Issue 4

Flower dust, reckoning, Mantissa Poetry Review, Issue 2

tank, Fragmented Voices, 2023

Princes Freeway and Penpal, Eclectic Words: Geelong Writers Anthology, 2022

Shoplifting and Abbatoir Blues, Roark Book, Issue 2

Sheila and Molly’s first birthday, The Quarter(ly), Vol. IV: ENDS

Manna Ash, Rabbit Journal, Issue 36

Peeling, The Rialto, Issue 99

35,000 feet and counting & Empire, How to Heal a Bloodline Anthology, Beyond the Veil Press

Silent home disco, Resilience, Anthology from Mascara Literary Review

The hole, Jupiter Review, Issue 4

Facebook marketplace and Himalayan salt lamp, $10, Opt West Magazine, Issue 1

The dance, Junk mail and The river meets the day, The Purposeful Mayonaise, Issue 2.2

I take the weather with me and Bright Ghosts, Gems Zine, Issue 22

Omen, Night Walk, Augie, Between Us and Up, Bat and Leather, Scumbag Press, Singles, Series 001

Nova, Munster Zine, Issue 35

Flame Trees is on the radio, Cordite Poetry Review, Issue 105

Duck dive and Hubcaps, Apricot Press, Issue One

Horseweed, Bad Lilies, Issue Seven

The Voyeur, Ghost Girls Zine, Vol. 2

Three poems, DreamPop Press

Fatness, The Moth, Issue 48

The Thief, Dream Catcher Magazine, Issue 44

Allegro Con Brio and other poems, Babyteeth Journal

Poetry and Settled Status for All: An Anthology, Civic Leicester

The Darling Skin: Anthology, Demure Mag, Issue 6

Jurassic, Storyteller’s refrain, Issue 1

The worker, Blue Bottle journal


2021

Blood pudding, camping trip, Moon song-, Hills in Scotland, Elements: Natural & The Supernatural Anthology, Fawn Press

Foxes & Deadheading, Wild Court

Girlhood, Ambit Magazine, Pop 245

Wake Up Routines, Ethel Magazine, Issue 8

Crumbs, Lovers in Coastal Towns, Breast, Sunday Mornings at the river, Autumn 2021: A Poetry Anthology

This summer is not a complete waste, Epoque Zine, 10th edition

The Statue, Abergavenny Small Press, Issue 4

The Thief, The Dawntreader Magazine

Dante’s waiting room and Lived in, Gypsophila Zine, Issue 3

Falling off a Horse, Spelt Magazine, Issue 2: The Summer Issue

Highstreet, Lockdown 2021, Normality? The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, Writing Awards 2021 (shortlisted, poetry)

Dead Tooth and Quiet Streets, Big River Poetry & Covid, UK AHRC Project

Babies, Blood Tree Literature, Issue 09

The Iron Moon, Ink Sweat and Tears

Sweet and low and The Dissidents, Anti-Heroin Chic, Issue 21

Satsuma, humana obscura, spring / summer, Issue 2

Swimming Pool, Feed Lit Mag, Issue 1.46

Scene (III) and How Hungry are the Children? Harpy Hybrid Review, Issue 3

BDSM Christmas and Love to the Shipping Forecast, Illagrypho Press, Issue 01

Poems 2020

Unheard of, Anthology, Enthusiastic press, Greetings Anthology, Enthusiastic Press, The Bacopa Literary Press, The Halcyone (Black Mountain Press), Fugitives & Futurists, Not Very Quiet, Drawn to the Light Press 

Competitions

Shortlisted, The Woollahra Digital Literary Award, 2024

Shortlisted, The UC Health Poetry Prize, 2024

Shortlisted, Poet of the Year Award, Canterbury Festival, 2024

Commended, The Ros Spencer Poetry Prize, 2024

Winner, The Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize, 2024

Second Prize, The Bedford Competition (Poetry Award), 2023

Longlisted, Cheltenham Poetry Festival Single Poem Prize, 2023

Commended, Winchester Poetry Prize, 2023

Shortlist, Letter Review Poetry Prize, 2023

Longlisted, Liquid Amber Poetry Prize, 2023

Winner, I am Poetry Competition, 2023

Commended, Kyogle Writers Festival Poetry Competition, 2023

Winner, Melbourne Poets Union International Poetry Prize, 2022

Highly Commended, Venie Holmgren Poetry Prize, 2022

Shortlisted Lucent Dreaming Poetry Prize, 2022

Longlisted Mono Poetry Prize, 2022

Longlisted Leeds Poetry Prize, 2022

Longlisted AUB Prize, 2021

Longlisted, Poet of the Year Awards, Canterbury Festival, 2021

Commended in the Ambit Annual Competition (Poetry), 2021 

Exhibitions

Message in a bottle exhibition: 

Visions from Covid-19 Lockdowns 2021,

The Old Operating Theatre,

London Bridge


(In)visible Libraries, 2023

Braille translations of poetry

Project designed & curated by Leisa Shelton & Marisa Sposaro

State Library of Victoria

Poems at The Old Operating Theatre, London Bridge

Poems upcoming, 2024

Dreich Magazine, Issue 100 / Ambient Receiver, Issue 1 / Jacaranda Journal 11.2 / The Weekend Australian