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PUBLICATION HISTORY

2025   Goldfinch (Axe Valley records) album of original songs
2025   Four poems on The Jotter, blog of Northern Irish poet Andrew Jamison: 'Hemispheres',
            'Sioux Shoes', 'They Miss Him Most Who Loved Him Best', and 'Vanitas'
2025   'Landscape With Knackered Barn' in Ten Poems from Somerset, edited by Carrie Etter
            (Candlestick Press, 2025)
2025   'Myths, Midlife and the End of Immortality' in Salt Magazine (online), edited by Chris
            Hamilton-Emery, 6 March.
2024   The Odyssey Complex and Other Poems (Salt Modern Poets, 2024) fourth full collection
2024   'Love and Hate' in Stride Magazine (online), edited by Rupert Loydell
2023   'The Odyssey Complex: Reading and Writing Midlife Poetics': PhD thesis / no corrections
2023   'Landscape With Knackered Barn' in Bad Lilies 17 (online), edited by Kathryn Gray and
             Andrew Neilson
​2023   'What's in the Gap?: A Reassessment of Alice Oswald's Poetry of Place' in Raceme, No. 14,
             Spring, edited by Sophie Thomas, Matthew Barton, Dominic Fisher and David Briggs
2023   'Hemispheres' in Museum Pieces: A Special Edition of Riptide, edited by Rob Magnusson
             Smith and Andy Brown

​2022    'Singing Along With Edith' in Stride ​(online), edited by Rupert Loydell
2021    Habitat (Blueprint Press): a twelve-poem sequence after W. H. Auden
2021    'Crackle', 'Cointreau', and 'On the Pequod' translated into Serbian for the magazine of the
              Sixteenth International Novi Sad Poetry Festival, Serbia

2021    'Crackle' a poem and critical commentary in memory of Mark Fisher, in ExclamatIon: An
              Interdisciplinary Journal 
(online), No. 5, edited by Joe Holloway ​  ​
​2020    'Praise' and 'Genius Loci' both shortlisted for the National Poetry Competition
2020    'Meanwhile on the Pequod' in Poetry Wales: 
Vol. 56, No.1, Summer, edited by Jonathan
             Edwards

2020    'Transitions' in The Sunday Tribune (online), August 1, edited by Jude Cowan Montague
2020    ’Calendar' in New Boots and Pantisocracies: Postcards from Malthusia (online), edited by
             Andy Jackson and Bill Herbert

2020    Review of Cracked Skull Cinema by Steve Spence for Litter Magazine (online), May 7, edited
             by Alan Baker

2020    ‘Less whimsy, more impulse’, my review of James Byrne's The Caprices (Arc, 2019) for Stride
             
(online), 
edited by Rupert Loydell; reposted by Arc
2020    'King of Bohemia: David Briggs remembers Roddy Lumsden' in Raceme, No. 9, Spring,
              edited by Matthew Barton, Dominic Fisher, and David Briggs 

2020    'Oak Galls' in Raceme: No. 10, Autumn/Winter, edited by Matthew Barton, Dominic Fisher,
             and David Briggs

2020    'Reading Outside the Rules of Acquisition: Reflections on the Poetry of Ian Duhig' in
             Raceme: No. 10, Autumn/Winter, edited by Matthew Barton, Dominic Fisher and David
             Briggs

2020    Cracked Skull Cinema is a Poetry Wales Pick of the Year for 2019, edited by Jonathan
             Edwards

2020    Review of ​Cracked Skull Cinema by Jane Routh for Magma, No. 76, Spring, edited by Leo
             Boix and Nathalie Teitler 
2020    Review of Cracked Skull Cinema by Sarah-Jean Zubair for ​Poetry London, No. 95, Spring,
             edited by Martha Sprackland and Dai George
 
2019    'First They Came', 'Ljubljana', and 'Lullaby' in Raceme: No. 8, Winter, edited by Matthew
             Barton   
2019    'In the Senior Common Room' in 
​Ten Poems about Bees​, edited by Brigit Strawbridge
             Howard (Candlestick Press, 2019)
 
2019    Review of Cracked Skull Cinema by Tom Phillips for Raceme: No. 8, Winter, edited by
             Matthew Barton

2019    Review of Cracked Skull Cinema by Rupert Loydell for Stride (online), edited by Rupert
             Loydell

​2019    'Magical Thinking' in The Moth: Issue 36, Spring 2019, edited by Rebecca O'Connor  
2019    
Cracked Skull Cinema (Salt Modern Poets, 2019), third full collection  
2018    ‘the desk’ in Bristol Poetry Anthology 2018, from the Department of English at the
             University of Bristol

2018    ‘Quiddity’, ‘Haecceity’, and ‘Mythology’ in Hotel (online), edited by Jon Auman, Thomas
             Chadwick and Dominic Jaeckle

2018    ‘Unspooling’ in re:Virals: No.143, hosted by Troutswirl (online), the blog of The Haiku
             Foundation

2018    ‘Haiku: The Keyhole of Its Details’, an interview with Alan Summers, re-posted on Area 17
             
(online), edited by Alan Summers

2018    ‘Five Lessons’ in The Caught Habits of Language: An Entertainment for W S Graham for Him
             Having Reached One Hundred
 (Donut Press, 2018),
 edited by Rachael Boast, Andy Ching,
             and Nathan Hamilton

2018    ‘Bleak Clarities’ a review of Vision Helmet by Tom Phillips for Raceme: No.6, Spring, edited
             by Matthew Barton

2018    ‘Vision Helmet’ in Raceme: No.6, Spring, edited by Matthew Barton
2018    ‘Keeping the Work Alight’, my review of Rachael Boast’s Void Studies (Picador, 2016) for 
             Raceme: No.6, Spring, edited by Matthew Barton
2017    ‘From A Level to AFA: The Rebirth of Creative Writing?’, an essay on the Apprentice of Fine
              Arts programme in Creative Writing for Teaching English:
 Issue 15, Autumn, the magazine
              of the National Association for the Teaching of English, edited by Gary Snapper

2017    ‘Five Daughters’ in Poetry Wales: Vol.52, No.3, Spring, edited by Nia Davies
2017    ‘Five Lessons’ in Magma: No.67, Spring, edited by A B Jackson and Rob A Mackenzie
2016    ‘In the Old Neighbourhood’ in Raceme: No.3, Winter 2016, edited by Matthew Barton and
              Jeremy Mulford

2016    ‘Praying for Rain’, a review of Vision Helmet by Aaron Kent for Stride (online), edited by
             Rupert Loydell

2016    ‘Lullaby’ in Antiphon (online), Issue 16, edited by Rosemary Badcoe and Noel Williams
2016    Vision Helmet (Maquette Press, 2016), limited-edition chapbook
2015    ‘Early Phases’ in Blithe Spirit: Journal of the British Haiku Society: Vol.25, No.3, Summer,
             edited by David Serjeant

2015    ‘Haiku: The Keyhole of Its Details’, an interview with Alan Summers in Blithe Spirit: Journal of
             the British Haiku Society: Vol.25, No.3, Summer, edited by
 David Serjeant
2015    ‘Late Electric Age’ in New Boots and Pantisocracies (online), edited by Andy Jackson and Bill
             Herbert

2015    ‘Sauce for the Goose’ in Poetry London: No.80, Summer, edited by Ahren Warner
2014    ‘First They Came’ in International Times (online), edited by Rupert Loydell

2014    ‘Newsworthy’ in International Times (online), edited by Rupert Loydell
2014    ‘Newsworthy’ commissioned for The News Agents, a weekly radio show hosted by Jude
             Cowan Montague on Resonance FM

2014    ‘First They Came’ commissioned and published (online) by Bristol Festival of Nature
2014    Review of Rain Rider by Angelina D’Roza for Sabotage (online), edited by Claire Trevién
2014    Review of Rain Rider by Laurie Smith in Magma: No.59, edited by Roberta James
2013    ‘Snow’ listed among ‘Top Ten Poems About Snow’ on A Thing for Poetry (online), edited by
             David Clarke

2013    ‘Florentine’ in The Poet’s Quest for God (Eyewear, 2013), edited by Todd Swift and Father
             Oliver Brennan

2013    Rain Rider is a Poetry Book Society Winter Selection
2013    ‘Follow Me’ in The Echoing Gallery (Redcliffe Press, 2013) edited by Rachael Boast
2013    Review of Rain Rider by Steve Spence for Stride (online), edited by Rupert Loydell
2013    Rain Rider (Salt Modern Poets, 2013), second full collection
2013    ‘O’ commissioned and published by Penning Perfumes, an ACE-funded collaboration
             between poets and perfumiers, organised and edited by Clare 
Trevién
2013    ‘Follow Me’ in The Echo Gallery: a Bristol Anthology of Art and Poetry, edited by Adam Hanna
             and Patrick Burley

2013    ‘Follow Me’ in Invective Against Swans (online) edited by Tamar Yoseloff
2012    ‘Snow’ featured in Eyewear (online), December, edited by Todd Swift

2012    ‘The Hermit’ in New Walk: Issue 5, Autumn/Winter, edited by Rory Waterman
2012    Review of The Method Men by Helen Tookey in New Walk: Issue 4, Spring/Summer, edited
             by Rory Waterman

2012    Feature including eight poems from The Method Men on Peony Moon (online) edited by
             Michelle McGrane

2012    ‘When Sam Beckett’ in Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam (Cinnamon Press, 2012),
             edited by Todd Swift

2012    ‘Test Card’ in New Statesman: 30 January
2011    'Test Card' in Tetrominoes, an illustrated pamphlet in collaboration with artist Angus Wolf

2011    ‘No Prisoners’ and ‘The Tower Hound’ in Trespass Magazine (online), edited by Sara-Mae
             Tuson

2011    Eight poems in Smartarse (The Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, 2011) edited by Rupert
             Loydell

2011    ‘A desk, a cup of coffee …’ interview with Meryl Pugh for Furtive (online), No.11
2011    ‘There’s a Method, Man’, interview with Ryan Van Winkle for the Scottish Poetry Library
             (podcast), June

2011    Interview with Matt Merritt for Polyolbion (online), June
2011    ‘’The Fool Subject to Experiments’, ‘Last Letter to Calliope’, and ‘The Fool’s Wake’ in Stride 
             
(online) edited by Rupert Loydell

2011    ‘And a Star’, ‘Hieratic’, and ‘My Rival’ in Horizon Review (online) Issue 6, edited by Katy
             Evans-Bush
​2010    The Method Men is an Editor’s Pick of 2010 for Stride (online), edited by Rupert Loydell

2010    ‘Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers’ appears in an exhibition of music-related poems
             at St George’s, Bristol

2010    ‘Deflated Ego 7: David Briggs on David Briggs’, an interview with myself for Stride (online),
             edited by Rupert Loydell

2010    Four poems featured in Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets (Bloodaxe Books, 2010),
            edited by Roddy Lumsden

2010    Review of The Method Men by Matt Merritt in Magma: No.48, Winter, edited by Laurie
             Smith and Rob A Mackenzie

2010    ‘Important to remember that turning the Death Card …’ in Entomologies (Faithless Arm &
             Co., 2010) edited by Dom Jaeckle and George Morgan

2010    Shortlisted in The Bridport Prize for ‘The Developer’
2010    ‘The Devil’ in Magma: No.47, Summer, edited by Annie Freud
2010    Review of The Method Men by Edward Clarke in Bristol Review of Books: Issue 14, Summer,
             edited by Stephen Morris

2010    The Method Men shortlisted for the London Festival Poetry Prize, adjudicated by Daljit
             Nagra, Tamar Yoseloff, and Adam O’Riordan

2010    Review of The Method Men for Hand+Star (online) by Julia Bird, edited by Tom Chivers
2010    ‘More Madness Please’: a review of The Method Men by Steve Spence for Stride (online),
             edited by Rupert Loydell

2010    The Method Men is Bristol Evening Post Book of the Week in June
2010    ‘Omens in Your First Words Each Morning: Discovering the Poetry of David Briggs’, by
             David Morley (online) at blogs.warwick.ac.uk

2010    My review of Abi Curtis’s Unexpected Weather (Salt Modern Poets, 2009) for Echo from the
             Canyon
  (online), edited by Roddy Lumsden and David
 Floyd
2010    ‘In the Senior Common Room’ in The Poetry Review: Vol.100, No.1. Spring, edited by Fiona
             Sampson

2010    ‘Required Reading’, ‘Exemplum’, and ‘The Fool’s Quest’ in Iota: No.87, Spring, edited by
             Nigel McLoughlin

2010    Two poems from ‘Seven Stations of a Record Collection’: ‘Johnny Thunders …’ and ‘Nick
             Cave …’ in The Frogmore Papers: No.75, Spring, edited by
 Jeremy Page
2010    The Method Men (Salt Modern Poets, 2010), first full collection
2009    ‘The Library of Missed Ripostes’ in Nth Position (online), edited by Todd Swift
2009    ‘Asking the Difficult Questions’ in Notes from the Underground: Issue 3, March, edited by
             Roddy Lumsden

2009    Three Poems: ‘On the Banks of Acheron’, ‘Closed Systems’ and ‘Drought’ in Horizon Review
             
(online): Issue 2, edited by Jane Holland

2008    Magma Showcase: seven poems in Magma: No.40, Spring, edited by Roddy Lumsden
2007    Commendation in the National Poetry Competition for ‘My Year of Culture’
2006    ‘Zennor Head’ in New Friends: … Poetry Inspired by the Life and Works of John Betjeman,
             edited by Pippa Williams, in association with The Parkinson’s
 Disease Society and Bath Spa
             University

2005    ‘The Method Men’ in Poetry Wales: Vol.40, No.4, Spring, edited by Robert Minhinnick
2005    ‘Rural Push, Urban Push’ in the Guardian (online), part of a feature on Reactions 5
2005    ‘What to Burn When You’ve Burnt Your Bridges’, ‘Conjugation in C Minor’, ‘Pere Lachaise’,
             ‘Rural Push, Urban Push’, ‘Snow’, ‘The Philosophical Bowling
 Shoe Counter Attendant’, and
             ‘What She Feared Might Happen’ in Reactions 5 (Pen&Inc Press, 2005), edited by Clare
             Pollard

2005    ‘The Floodplains of Winter’ in Agenda Broadsheet: No.1, edited by Patricia McCarthy
2004    ‘Twenty Below Zero’, ‘Historia Occultica’, and ‘Seafaring’ in Limelight: No.4 (online), edited by
             A B Jackson

2003    ‘What Happened to Clowns’ in Poetry Life: Issue 23, Summer 2003, edited by Adrian Bishop
2002    Eric Gregory Award from The Society of Authors
1999    Landscape and Liability (Unreal Records), album of original songs
1998    The Last Bus (Unreal Records), three-track EP
1997    Drinking With Shadows (Unreal Records), three-track EP
1997    Two tracks on Not the Only Fruit, an Unreal Records compilation album
1997    Two tracks on The Oranges Are Singing, an Unreal Records compilation album
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