Publications and Awards

I’m excited to share news that my collection, Minx, will be published by Chatto and Windus for Penguin Random House on March 20th. I’ve created a separate page for her exploits but I’ll add a little about her cheeky exploits here too.
To whet your appetite here is a little about her from the Chatto page:
‘Don’t worry, I’m here in the house where every room has a name, but children’s names are often forgotten’
Heart-breaking yet uplifting, this lyrical evocation of an Anglo-Romani childhood on the edge of society marks the arrival of a vital new voice.
MINX draws us into the vibrant but precarious world of a multi-racial Romani family, whose troubled mother struggles to support her two girls on the proceeds of her shadowy nighttime work. The sisters develop a powerful bond, which helps them survive once they’re taken into care, under the punishing regime of a children’s home that separates them.
Through a series of daring experiments with form and narrative, MINX captures how it feels to be caught between a culture whose traditional ways are being lost and a wider society that despises them. With a verve and playfulness that belies their pain, these poems explore what it means to belong: the search for a language and heritage erratically passed on and the cost of being forcibly assimilated.

  • Didicoy, I’m delighted to announce that Didicoy is the Poetry Book Society recommended pamphlet for summer 23.

It can be purchased through The Poetry Book Society / The Poetry Business / Amazon /  W.H.Smith   / Blackwells 

Link to Wild Court.

This poem uses a form that I working with extensively in my PhD. In it I explore experiential material in both Angloromanes and English.

The Traditions We Bring With Us in a Confluence of Reds and Silks

Winner of the 2021 Cosmo Davenport-Hines poetry competition.

On Seeing Your Clothes On Someone Else

Published by Rattle, this poem with audio clip is taken from my recently completed MA thesis. It highlights the experience of many children taken into state care where personal belongings, like the children themselves, became part of a collective resource.