And, of course, instead of updating this sooner, it has been longer this time.

FIRSTLY, regarding news, I have a new book coming out on the 18th May. A chapbook called CARCASS. Gaze upon its beautiful cover by Inkspiral Design:

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I mean, how beautiful is that?

A dark little book, I’m going to be posting reviews, readings and more over the next few weeks. Today, I put up a reading (my first from an actual hard copy!) of the sci-fi poem, The Great Reduction, featured within.

You can watch that here:

The book can be ordered from Seven Kitchens Press and is a limited edition, so don’t wait! There will also be a virtual launch on the 18th, details tbc.

SECONDLY, this year I had some lovely things happen. First and foremost among them was that I was selected for this year’s Poetry Ireland Introductions Series!

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I was also delighted to receive an Arts Bursary from South Dublin Arts Office as well as being shortlisted for the 2020 Cúirt New Writing Prize, with my poem ‘Home Invasion’

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THIRDLY, I’m delighted to say that since my last update, I’ve had lots of work published.

Poems in Softblow (4 Poems!), Skylight47, Bleached Buterfly, Animal (the title poem from Carcass), Visual Verse (two times), HIV Here + Now, The Honest Ulsterman, and Boyne Berries. I have also been writing quite a bit of poetry in response to (mostly queer) news and, latterly, the Corona virus, with some queer news poems here, here, here, here and here.

FOURTHLY, I have, over the past year or so, been writing haiku and they’re starting to make their way out in the world, with haiku, senryu and sequences published in Eastern Structures, The Bamboo Hut, Better Than Starbucks, What Rough Beast, and some Covid-themed haiku at Pendemic here and here.

Finally, I’ll try and update the blog in a more regular fashion! (ha!)