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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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The Lost Art of Ironing by  Kelly Davis (published by Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2024)

 

Glory Days by Kerry Darbishire and Kelly Davis (published by Hen Run, 2021)

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Magazines

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Mslexia, no. 100  (Dec/Jan/Feb 2023/24)

'The lost art of ironing', 'In my mind I've been to Antarctica'

 

The Journal, 68  (Spring 2023)

'In the future I dream of', 'Strangers and guests'

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Erbacce Poetry Journal, 69 (Spring 2022)

'Calling them in', 'Lentil soup', 'Yesterday I woke early', 'If Emily Dickinson were my best friend', 'Valldemossa'

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Magma Poetry, Issue 81, Anthropocene

'Meeting in Deep Time'

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Shooter Literary Magazine 12 (2021), Animal Love Issue

‘Floating’

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Websites

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Iambapoet, Wave 21, March 2025

 

Carlisle Poetry Symposium, Interview, September 2024

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Wombwell Rainbow, Interview, Autumn 2024

 

London Grip Poetry Magazine, 'I sat opposite Autumn on the Tube', Spring 2023

 

Wildfire Words, On the Same Page, 'Grateful', 2022

 

 

Anthologies

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Hadrian's Wall and its Trees 
(edited by David J. Breeze, Archaeopress, 2025) Poem ‘Sycamores at Maryport’

 

Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2026 (Aesthetica, 2025)

Poem ‘You are at queue position 32’

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To Make Us Real: Winning Poems from the 2024 Winchester Poetry Prize

(Winchester Poetry Festival, 2024)

Selected by Clare Shaw

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Two Ravens: Explorations of mind and memory

(Grey Hen Press, 2024)

Edited by Joy Howard

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Epona and the Golden Bees: A Moment of Time in the Museum 

(Senhouse Roman Museum, 2023)

Edited by Angela Locke

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Before the Cameras Leave Ukraine (Black Spring Press, 2023)

Edited by Rebecca Graham

‘This Sceptred Isle’

 

Different Days: Another 20 poems for the planet (Grey Hen Press, 2022)

‘Earth’s heartbone laid bare’

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Words from the Brink: Stories and Poems from Solstice Shorts Festival 2021 (Arachne Press, 2021) ‘The Last Lioness’ and ‘What the Natterjack Toad Teaches Us’, video introduction to poems

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Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2022 (Aesthetica, 2021)

Poem ‘Conversation with my father’ previously selected by Vanessa Kisuule for Luke Jerram’s Bread Poetry Competition, Week 6

On video 

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Hair Raising Anthology (Nine Pens Press, 2021)

All proceeds donated to Macmillan Cancer Support

'Crowning Glory' on video

 

New Writing Northwest 2021: A Litfest Anthology

From 16 March to 28 April 2021, Lancaster Litfest ran ‘New Writing Northwest’, a series of workshops in four genres for emerging writers based in the Northwest region. I participated in the poetry workshops, led by Kim Moore, and some of our poems appear in this anthology. 

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Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021 (Black Spring Press, 2021)

‘Floating’ on video

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Lovely, Dark and Deep: Poems About Woods (Grey Hen Press, 2021)

‘Autumn Walk in Flimby Woods’

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