‘A Positively Violent Poem in Five Parts’ won the second prize in the Poems to Solve the Climate Crisis challenge on Young Poets Network in 2021. This challenge was created in partnership with People Need Nature, and set and judged by poet Louisa Adjoa Parker.
It was later presented at COP26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Glasgow, and featured as the UK Department for Education-commissioned KS4 ‘Poetry and nature’ resource. In 2024 and ’25, two research papers also mentioned this poem, praising it for being “pre-empt[ive of] any idea of easy solutions”, and noting it as “a good example of how a sophisticated structure can be combined with deep thought.”
‘On milelong walks to look at closed windows every once in a while’ was published by Chismosa Press as part of their Volume 2 in 2019.
‘Earth, Fire’, written after Yvonne Reddick’s poem ‘Translating Mountains from the Gaelic’, was the first prize-winner in the Young Poets Competition at the Wells Festival of Literature in 2021. The competition was judged by the poet Phoebe Stuckes.
‘every other side of my town’ was part of PoetryM’app, Label Lit’s Irish National Poetry Day project in 2019.
‘’Twas a long summer of thin air’ first appeared in Ink Sweat & Tears, where it was the IST Pick of the Month for May 2021.
‘Annotations on Microbes’ first appeared in ‘Biophilia’ (The Winged Moon, 2025).
‘Come over, this night—’ was published in Rappahannock Review’s Issue 12.2: Spring 2025. It borrows from Faheem Abdullah and Rauhan Malik’s popular song ‘Ishq’.
‘Warm Verbs’ was first published as part of Full House Literary’s Summer 2023 issue.