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Children in the window published
February 2026
In May last year (2025) I read alongside Oxford Professor of Theoretical Physics Joseph Conlon at a Cheltenham Poetry Festival event entitled “Origins and the Poetry of Science”. I’ve also read at events held at Cirencester Library and the Upton on Severn Folk Festival.
My fourth collection of poems, my first since “Uncharted” (Graffiti Books 2022), has just been published ( February 2026). It is entitled Children in the Window, and comes again from Graffiti Books. (See the Books/Publications section of this website for more details). It will be launched late February at an event to be hosted by the Malvern Book Co-op.
Later in the year I shall be reading from my new collection at Cheltenham Library and at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival.

Cheltenham Poetry Festival
May 2025
In May last year (2025) I read alongside Oxford Professor of Theoretical Physics Joseph Conlon at a Cheltenham Poetry Festival event entitled “Origins and the Poetry of Science”. I’ve also read at events held at Cirencester Library and the Upton on Severn Folk Festival.