Awards 

Royal Society of Literature Literature Matters Award 2025  |  Winner

The Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize  |  Shortlisted

The Forward Prize 2024  |  Nominated by The Poetry Society 

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Highly Commended

Bridport Prize (judged by Raymond Antrobus)  |  We Real Spinsters

Live Canon International Poetry Prize  |  The Final Foley Session

The Live Canon (by Jennifer Wong)  |  The Fish Shack, Margate

The Ware Poets (by Hannah Copley)  |  Library of Field Notes

Fish Poetry Prize (by Billy Collins)  |  Dharma Without Dogma

The AUB International (by Glyn Maxwell) | The Trap-Bath Split  and  Strikes

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The Presence of Absence

New Writing North Poetry Prize  |  Winner (judged by Caroline Bird & Anthony Anaxagorou)

Poetry Wales Competition  |  Highly commended

The Rialto Pamphlet Competition 2020  |  Shortlisted (by Will Harris)

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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.