I lived in France as a kid as well as Nottinghamshire, Liverpool and London; my lyrical poetics are influenced by poets, singers, sounds, friends & things that are in the world. I write about love, weather systems and rivers, language divides, and anything that arises, performing with remembered words and also in ways that flourish at the time, feeling delight, weight, presence or movement in the room.

In my live performance practice, I have worked with musicians over the past few years, weaving together words, sound and sometimes live ink drawing. I’ve performed at Cafe OTO and Black Tower in London, the Assembly Rooms in Glastonbury, The Silk Mill in Frome and the Plough Arts Centre in Devon, and won the poetry slam Rhyme Against the Tide in Weston-super-Mare in 2022.

I’ve just published an illustrated poetry book, Love and Beauty, using ink drawings to play with text and symbol. As I was writing these poems, ‘love’ and ‘beauty’ became two forms through which the poems took shape.

My voice and poetry appears on a collaborative album, The Wind That Had Not Touched Land, out with A Colourful Storm records in March 2025 (here’s a review that explains the project). I love working with musicians, producers and performers; please get in touch if you’d like to do something together.

I have a longstanding practice as a mentor and developmental editor for other writers, which is a craft and pleasure in its own right.