Publications

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Poetry collection

Limbo, Blue Diode Press, 2021

In Anthologies

‘singular together’, collaboration with Gillian Shirreffs, Dostoyevsky Wannabe Cities: Glasgow, edited by Ruthie Kennedy and Colin Herd, Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2022.

‘and so we sew’ in ’12: content work produce form’ in Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event?, edited by Sophia Yadong Hao, Sternberg Press, 2019

‘Nightingale’, #MeToo: a women’s poetry anthology, edited by Deborah Alma, Fairacre Press, 2018.

‘silica’ and ‘a drawn out magic trick’, Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back, edited by Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka & Daniel Sluman, Nine Arches Press, 2017.

‘L’ and ‘R’, A New Manchester Alphabet: An Illustrated Collection of New Poetry, edited by Jean Sprackland, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2015.

Journals and newspapers

My poems have been published in a wide range of journals, including Structo, Tears in the Fence, Under the Radar, Abridged, The Arsonist, The Interpreter’s House, Glasgow Review of Books, Gutter, The Honest Ulsterman, Coast to Coast to Coast, Far Off Places and Bare Fiction. One of her poems has also featured as ‘Poem of the Week in The Scotsman.

Competition

‘Scur’ was placed second in the 2020 Mslexia Poetry Competition. ‘Scur’ was written about a cutaneous horn exhibited at the Anatomical Museum in Edinburgh and previously removed in 1671 from the head of Elizabeth Low.

Articles

‘It sounds messy. It sounds MSsy: poetic inquiry as a methodology for exploring lived experience of multiple sclerosis.’ The Honest Ulsterman, 2019.

‘A poet and you didn’t know it?’ New Pathways, 2022.

Regular editorials for The Interpreter’s House since 2018.

Blogs

I have also written blogs for Scottish Poetry Library, StAnza Poetry Festival, the MS Society, MS-UK and Leuchie House.