Publications and events

2025

‘The Waiters’, published in Querencia Press anthology, Chicago (forthcoming).
Publisher: Sad Boys are Not My Kink, by Galia Admoni, Dunlin Press (forthcoming).
The Heavy Heavy Soil, short story, FU Review, Berlin (September 2025)
Event: The Home Recording Handbook launch, The Nose bookshop, Walton-on-the-Naze (28 June).
Event: The Home Recording Handbook launch, with Wivenhoe Bookshop, Wivenhoe (9 May)
Editor/publisher: The Home Recording Handbook, by Martin Newell, Dunlin Press (April 2025).
Music: soundtrack for short artist film by Ella Johnston, The Other MA – TOMA, Southend (February 2025).

2024

Reading: Poetry Wivenhoe event, Old Grocery, Wivenhoe (21 November)
Reading/music: One Afternoon in November: words and music with Martin Newell and MW Bewick, The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester (17 November)
‘Bolero’, published in Coal, Smith | Doorstop (November 2024).
Reading: with Emma Bolland and Galia Admoni, launch of Objects anthology, Small Publishers Fair, London (26 October).
‘Malibu Sunset Tanning Studio’, ‘Some Jazz’ and ‘Open Tabs’, published in Objects, Dunlin Press (October 2024).
Publisher: Objects, an anthology of experimental poetry and writing, Dunlin Press (October 2024).
Reading: Poems from the Hythe and Beyond: Martin Newell and MW Bewick, St Leonard’s-at-the-Hythe, Colchester (20 July).
‘The Disappearances’, ‘Always Was a Results-Driven Business’, and ‘Class Dismissed’, published in Poetry Salzburg, Issue 31 (July 2024).
Reading: poems on the 40th anniversary of the miners strike. St Mary’s Annexe, Wivenhoe (15 June).
Reading and workshop, Suffolk Festival of Poetry, headlining with Annie Freud (11 May).
‘At Lowside Quarter’, published in SINK, Issue 5 (April 2024).
‘On Seeing San Gimignano from the Colne’, part of signage for Colchester walking trail.
Event: Dunlin Press poets’ pamphlets launch at Poetry Society’s Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair, London (20 April).
Publisher: four pamphlets: A Raven on a Writing Desk, by Julie Hogg; From Stone to Clay to Butter, by Lily Petch; Bomb, by Samuel Reid; Kathmandu, by Andrew Shaw. Dunlin Press (April 2024).
Reading: with Ezra Miles at the launch of his collection The Signalman, Burley Fisher Books, London (20 March).
‘Parlour Game Onslaught’, published in Streetcake Magazine, Issue 88 (January 2024).

2023
Event: City of Literature Publishing Fair, National Centre for Writing, Norwich (2 December).
Workshop: Finding Freedom, Mosaic poetry, Colchester, 18 October.
Event: Foreword fringe literature festival, Bury St Edmunds (7/8 October).
Bubblegum, pamphlet of poetry and illustration in collaboration with Ella Johnston, Dunlin Press (October 2023).
Reading: Poetry in Troubled Times, with André Mangeot, Old Grocery, Wivenhoe (21 September).
‘Goodbye to Language’, published in Overground Underground, Issue 3 (August 2023).
Reading: Beir Bua poets ‘Now That’s What I Call the Best Online Reading Event Ever! (5 July).
Event: Boot Sale Harvest launch, with Adrian May, Ken Worpole and Wivenhoe Bookshop (1 July).
Reading: Long Poem Magazine, Issue 29 Launch, Barbican Library, London (17 June).
‘Nightingales’ sequence of five prose poems, published in Long Poem Magazine, Issue 29 (June 2023).
Editor/publisher: Boot Sale Harvest, by Adrian May, Dunlin Press (June 2023).
‘1,000 Airplanes on the Roof’ and ‘/////OOOOO\\\\\’ published in D.O.R. (January2023).

2022
‘Big Hi from the Planning Dept) published in Streetcake magazine (November 2022).
Reading: open mic at Cheltenham Poetry Festival inline (7 November).
Reading:: open mic at Cheltenham Poetry Festival inline (15 October).
Reading: live at Coda, Colchester, supporting the Wicked Ravens album launch (30 September).
‘Soliloquy for the Old Crew’, published at Overheardlit.com (May 2022).
Reading: Sudbury Poets, Sudbury (9 May).
Music and spoken word – compositions for A Study of a Long-Lived Magma Ocean on a Young Moon, dunlinpress.bandcamp.com (April 2022).
A Study of a Long-Lived Magma Ocean on a Young Moon, pamphlet of poetry and asemic artworks in collaboration with Ella Johnston, Dunlin Press (April 2022).
End of Music, pamphlet, Black Light Engine Room press (February 2022).

2021
‘Goodbye Blackfriars Bridge’ and ‘What is to be Done?’ in The Luas is Free: Beir Bua Press 2021 Anthology (Beir Bua Press, December 2021).
Reading and discussion: ‘Meet me at the crossroads – A journey in poetry and music’ for Suffolk Poetry Society, forthcoming, 12 September.
‘Dead Rock Stars (80s Mix)’ sequence of five poems, in DREICH 9, Season 3 (September, 2021).
Reading and Q&A, Beir Bua authors online book launch, 29 August.
The Zircon Ferries, short collection, Beir Bua Press (2020)
‘Cut Your Hair (Remix)’, ‘Cut Your Hair (Dub)’ and ‘Can, Oh Yeah (Cover) published at Beir Bua (August)
Reading: two short poems at the 7th Festival of Suffolk Poetry, 8 May
‘In a Downbeat Afternoon’, at Poetrywivenhoe.org, March
Review of Pomes Flixus in London Grip, March

2020
Pomes Flixus, editor’s pick of 2020 at Stride Magazine.
Review of What I Do byJames Kelman and The Review by Martin Stannard for The Lonely Crowd‘s Books of the Year 2020
‘Found Poem for Philip Glass’, ‘David, Again’ and ‘Music of the Woods’, in The Lonely Crowd, December 2020
‘Remembering this occasion is ours’: Pomes Flixus and The Orphaned Spaces reviewed in Stride Magazine.
‘Talkin’ Ramblin’ Anthropocene Poetry Blues’ and ‘Some Start Fires’, in Chaos anthology (Patrician Press, 2020)
Reading: Flixfest, series of online video performances to support the launch of Pomes Flixus, 25 May
Pomes Flixus, Dunlin Press, 2020
Reading: Wivenhoe Lockdown Festival, 27 April

2019
‘Blue Truth’, at Visual Verse, Volume 7, Chapter 2, (December 2019)
‘Outward, Bound’, in The Cormorant, Issue 4, December 2019
‘Verb’, in The High Window, Winter 2019
Editor: The Greatest Living Englishman, autobiography of musician and poet Martin Newell, Autumn Girl books (2019)
Reading: Small Publishers Fair, for the London launch of Port, Conway Hall, London, 16 November
Reading: Poetry in Aldeburgh, for the launch of the Port anthology and the Coast to Coast to Coast special edition, Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh, 8 November
Port, a Dunlin Press anthology of poetry and prose (November 2019)
‘Hythe Quay, Essex, 5 July, 2.15pm’, in Coast to Coast to Coast, special Aldeburgh edition (November 2019)
‘The Estuary from a Train’, in Marble, Issue 5
‘The Force of a Leaf’, in The Mechanics’ Institute Review, Issue 16 (September 2019)
‘The Hill Village’, in the anthology The Cottongrass Appreciation Society, Maytree Press (2019)
‘Wild Swimming’, in Under the Radar, Issue 24 (September 2019
‘Equals’, in The Blue Nib, Issue 39 (Summer 2019)
‘Same Old Nowhere’, ‘A Pincer Movement’, and ‘Stet’, in the anthology Pondweed, Greenteeth Press (2019)
Reading: Border Crossing, with Poetrywivenhoe (hosts) and Suffolk Poetry Society, Wivenhoe, 23 May
Reading: Foyles bookshop, Chelmsford, Essex, poems from Tempest, 5 March
Reading: The Art Exhange, University of Essex, for the launch of Tempest, 5 March
Reading: Bookmarks bookshop, London, for the launch of Tempest, 1 March
‘Temple for Mithras’ and ‘Calypso’ in the anthology Tempest, Patrician Press (March 2019).

2018
‘As a Ghost’ in the Remembrance Day for Lost Species pamphlet for Sea Shepherd UK
Reading: Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, a Magma and Coast to Coast to Coast event with Rebecca Gethin, Polly Atkin and James Goodman, 4 November
‘What Makes It Real’, in Envoi (Issue 180, October 2018)
Reading: University of Essex, Literature, Film and Theatre studies Department, 2 October
‘There are No Mountains’, displayed at Marsden Walking Weekend / Poetry and Place event
The Orphaned Spaces, Dunlin Press, 2018
Compere: Poetrywivenhoe, Ekphrasis project with Mosaic Stanza group, Colchester, 29 June
Reading: New Town, Colchester, community day opened by John Cooper Clarke
‘Caution Please’, in The Stinging Fly (Issue 38, Volume 2, Summer 2018)
‘A Viewfinder’, in The Poetry Village (May 2018)
Reading: Poetrywivenhoe, with guest poet Rebecca Watts, Wivenhoe, Essex, 26 April
Reading: Crossing Borders II, with Poetrywivenhoe, Suffolk Poetry Society (hosts), University of Suffolk, Ipswich, 25 April
Compere: Poetrywivenhoe, with guest poet John Greening, 22 March
‘Request Stop’, highly commended, Ways With Words, Words By the Water poetry competition 2018
‘Unsaid’, in London Grip, February 2018
Chair: Writing the Place, with Syd Moore (noveslist), Robin Brooks (radio dramatist) and Nicola Werenowska (playwright), Essex Book Festival, FirstSite, Colchester, 4 March
Reading: launch of Towards the Light: Poems of Reconciliation, Essex Book Festival, The Minories, Colchester, 3 March
‘Tomorrow’s Flowers’ and ‘Les Fleurs de Demain’ (trs) in Towards the Light: Poems of Reconciliation, ed. Vivien Whelpton, Kapaju Books, March 2018
‘An Anniversary’, in The Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Issue: January-March 2018
Compere: Poetrywivenhoe, with guest poet Kit Wright, 25 January

2017
Reading: launch of Coast to Coast to Coast, Issue 2, at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, 19 December
‘Ways’ in Coast to Coast to Coast, Issue 2, eds. Maria Isakova Bennett and Michael Brown
Reading: at The Great Big Poetry Open Mic, with David Canning, Essex Poetry Festival, 11 October
Speaking/host: launch of Priced Out, by Tinsel Edwards, Atom Gallery, London, 3 August
Editor: Priced Out, by Tinsel Edwards, Dunlin Press
Reading: Poetrywivenhoe, 25 May
Interviewed: ‘Poems Wirth Crowing About’, in Colchester Gazette, 14 April
Reading: Poetry Aloud, Bury St Edmunds, 28 March
Reading: Crossing Borders, with Poetrywivenhoe, Suffolk Poetry Society (hosts), University of Suffolk, Ipswich, 21 March
Reading: launch of Scarecrow, Wivenhoe Bookshop, Wivenhoe, 17 March
Scarecrow, debut collection, Dunlin Press, March
‘Day Lilies’ in The Interpreter’s House, Issue 64, February