‘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.”