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Poetry Competitions
Bridport Prize 2008 - Shortlisted for 'Ending'
Bridport Prize 2009 - Highly Commended for 'Ultrasonic Mouse Deterrent'.
National Poetry Competition 2008
- Commended for 'The Minister as a Horse'.
National Poetry Competition 2020 & 2022 - Longlisted. 
South Downs Poetry Festival Competition 2021 - Highly Commended for 'Crundale Buckle'.
South Downs Poetry Festival Competition 2021 - First Prize for 'Wild Boars'.
Bridport Prize 2021 - Shortlisted for 'The Homeless'.
Verve Poetry Festival Competition 2022 - Commended for 'Barbecuing in the Snow'.
Verve Poetry Festival competition 2023 - Commended for 'Shaoshan'..

Ver Poets Competition 2022 - two poems selected for competition anthology.
Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2022 - Shortlisted for 'Inventory Keeper'.
Walter Swan Poetry Competition 2022 - Highly Commended for the Old Crowd


Poetry Anthologies
City Lighthouse Poetry Anthology (tall-lighthouse) 2009
City State: New London Poetry (Penned in the Margins) 2009
Days of Roses Anthology 1 (edited by Declan Ryan & Malene Engelund 2011)
You've got so many machines, Richard! - An Anthology of Aphex Twin Poetry (Broken Sleep Books, edited by Rishi Dastidar & Aaron Kent, 2022)
Swapping the Present for a Future: The Verve Anthology of Beginnings (Verve, edited by Caroline Bird, 2022)
Like Flowering for the Revolution: The Verve Anthology of Protest Poems (Verve, edited by Kim Moore, 2023)
Ver Poets Competition Anthology 2022

Poetry Magazines/ Journals
The Clutter Jar in The North (Issue 68)
The Drone in The Spectator (4th 
March 2023)
Last Entry appeared in Other Poetry
After the Bombs appeared in Stand.  
Red Kite at a Football Match appeared in Poetry Wales.
Co-Seismic Slip and Ghost Story both appeared in New Welsh Review.

The Fascination appeared in Fuselit.  
The Return of My Father appeared in Ambit.  
Miso Soup appeared in Poetry London (Issue 63)
Something Not Quite Placed, The Great Debate and Yes, I Have Compared You to a Goat appeared in Poetry London (Issue 66).  
Posthumous appearing in SOUTH (Issue 67)

Natural Forces appeared in Iota.  
After the Clinking of Glasses appeared in Dreamcatcher.
Erno Goldfinger Moves into Balfron Tower, Tenancy Decant, and, Rent Man’s Note appeared in City State: New London Poetry (Penned in the Margins) 
Gaudi’s Workshop, June 6th 1926 appeared in The Wolf.   
Meat appeared in Magma.  

Photography Competitions
First Prize in the King’s Mile Photo Competition, Canterbury Unseen, 2022
 

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