I recently won a Literature Matters Award 2025 from The Royal Society of Literature, was nominated by The Poetry Society for best single poem in The Forward Prize 2024 for My Father in his Coracle, and was shortlisted for The Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize.  Additionally I was  invited to read at The National Poetry Library and am thankful for the support I have received from both The Arts Council England and The Society of Authors.​​

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I have been highly commended in The Bridport (by Raymond Antrobus) with We Real Spinsters, The Live Canon (by Jennifer Wong) for The Fish Shack, Margate, The Ware Poets for Library of Field Notes (by Hannah Copley) and The Cheshire Prize for Literature (by Daljit Nagra) for Three Lockdown Days.​​  The Trap-Bath Split and Strikes were listed by Glyn Maxwell in The AUB International and my poem Dharma Without Dogma in the Fish Poetry Prize by Billy Collins. 

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My pamphlet The Presence of Absence won a New Writing North Poetry Prize (judged by Caroline Bird and Anthony Anaxagorou) was highly commended in The Poetry Wales competition shortlisted in The Rialto Pamphlet Competition 2020 (by Will Harris) and in the The Live Canon Collection.

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"Such an impressively sustained study of Alzheimer’s, which makes powerful use of a variety of forms. Little details – like the indented couplet in ‘The Avalon Plum Tree’ – carry such emotional heft. This is empathetic, “straight in the eye”, unsentimental but very moving writing."  Will Harris, Rialto Judge.