Category Archives: Poetry

Commute Horror Show (320)

So, this is both a blog post with a poem and also a blog post with an announcement. If you head over to my Upcoming Releases page, you might notice that there is a new book on the horizon – a poetry collection called Commute! This is something that I’ve wanted to put together for a while and I’m really happy to say that it has been progressing really well (and I’ve fallen in love with the cover), so here is a poem from that collection!

Supported Through The Storm

I’ve recently had the privilege of being able to work with Wigan Council’s Million Voices youth group to create a poem promoting foster care within Wigan. The poem used the exact words and feelings of the young people, and it was a really amazing project to be a part of. You can watch my reading of the poem or you can read the poem (or you could do both!). I hope you enjoy!

Freelancer

This is a poem that I wrote for TUGZ Magazine as a part of my senior creative writer role, so I’m excited to share it with you today! Freelancer, as you might’ve guessed from the title, covers the more negative, frantic and frankly stressed side of working in a freelance position, considering both the effects of the work itself and the stigma or prejudices around it.

A Cicerone’s Poem

With the release of my upcoming dark fantasy novella, Cicerone, on the horizon, I thought I’d share a poem that fell in and out of the manuscript ever since its beginnings in 2018. I’ve been considering whether to use this particular piece in the novella or not, and how I would use it, for so long that it almost feels wrong to cast it aside, but I think it works much better as additional content rather than something contained within the pages of the novella. So, please enjoy this little accompanying poem to Cicerone, and make sure you’re subscribed to my newsletter if you’d like to receive a free ebook copy of Cicerone as soon as it comes out.

Love Letter Penned By A Pining Princess

This poem was recently featured in the second issue of TUGZ Magazine. It’s a bit of a sad one (and a bit of a long one) but I hope that you enjoy it and also check out the rest of that issue for another flash fiction piece by me and also some great fiction and non-fiction content from the other contributors.

Love Between Fire And Ice

I have another poem from that upcoming project that I’ve mentioned before in one of these blog posts for you today. It’s a rather long one, by my current standards for the poems I’ve been writing recently, but the concept intrigued me on a walk home recently and it’s been burning – unintentional pun – away in my head for a while, so here’s the poem.

For Someone

This is actually a poem that I worked on in one of my university workshops, so I’ve edited it more than I usually would and received some interesting feedback on it. I know that university has really put a stop to a lot of my plans for my writing and books, but this poem might be part of a project that I hope will signify me getting back to my ‘author feet’, in a way. In any case, I hope that you enjoy it today!