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Poems

'You win a major poetry competition - commended in 2024 Verve Poetry Competition

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'The Lemmings' – The London Magazine, winter 2024

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Short Biog, The World's Smallest Ball of Paint, Ketchup and reprints of Nêspera, If You Can Go to Hell for Lust, Front Crawl in FIVE (Poetry Business, New Poets imprint, 2024​)

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'Nêspera' - Magma (M86, Food Issue, 2023)

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'Ci to the tune of Drunk in the Blossom’s Shadows’ by Li Qingzhao, co-translated with Amanda Wong; and ‘On Eggs’ - Poetry London, Summer 2022

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'Ci to the tune of Yu the Beauty' by Li Yu and 'Ci to the tune of Slow Sounds' by Li Qingzhao, co-translated with Amanda Wong - Modern Poetry in Translation, Summer 2022

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‘Object’ - fourteen poems, 2022

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‘Sir Balin’ and ‘Lady of the Lake’ - Poetry Wales, Spring 2022

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'The Insomniac' - Butcher's Dog, 2022

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'Back Story' - commended, Verve Poetry Competition 2021

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‘The Green Man Never Pees But He Does Leave Acorns in the Bathroom’ Magma (M81, Anthropocene issue, 2021)

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‘Trivial’ and ‘Sonnet’ - Tentacular (issue 9, 2021)​

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'Monsieur le Barman' - commended, Winchester Poetry Festival (2021)

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'To 木蘭' and 'extract from witchknot' -The Book of Bad Betties, edited by Vanessa Kisuule and Anja Konig (2021)
 

‘The Translator’ and ‘A Woman Who Cuts Her Hair’, Under the Radar (Issue 27, 2021)

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'witchknot', Untold Stories Digital Anthology (English Heritage, 2021)

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'You try to tidy your room one Saturday' - We Have Never Seen Something Like This (Roundhouse Poetry Collective anthology, 2021)

‘Together We’ll Meet In Down-Facing Dog’ - commended, Mslexia Poetry Competition 2020

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'Bear', 'The Bojo No-Show' & 'Touch Heart/Dim Sum' - The London Library Emerging Writers Programme Anthology (2021)

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'Lobster' - bath magg (issue 3, 2020)

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‘Barman in Lockdown’, Poetry Birmingham (issue 5, 2020)

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'Yung Shue Wan Pier' - The Willowherb Review (issue 3, 2020)

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'Barman in Eden' - Tomorrow (Bronze winner, Creative Future Writers' Award 2020)

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'Central Pier 4' - harana poetry (issue 4, 2020)

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‘Ode to the clump of dust in my bedroom’ - A Diary of Windows & Small Things (2020)

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'Germinations', after Natalie Linh Bolderston - Stay Home Diary (bitter melon, 2020)

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Several poems responding to the day's Brexit headlines - 31 Nights in Europe (Minute Books, January 2020)

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‘Bear’ - Ambit (issue 239, 2020)

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‘Sampan’ - The Fenland Reed (issue 8, 2019)

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‘Touch Heart / Dim Sum’ - Strix (issue 4, 2018)

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'Coming from the Mill' - Manchester Review (2017)

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'Note from Orchestra' - The Missing Slate poem of the week (2017)

Books

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Prose

Review of ISDAL by Susannah Dickey, food for the dead by Charlotte Shevchenko Knight and Girls That Never Die by Safia Elhillo, in conversation with Sean Wai Keung in The Poetry Review (Summer 2024)

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The School of Try Again: In Praise Of Chen Chen’s Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency - Ink Sweat and Tears (February 2023)

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Review of Honorifics by Cynthia Miller and sikfan glaschu by Sean Wai Keung - The North (January 2022)

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Review of Thinking with Trees by Jason Allen-Paisant, Rift Zone by Tess Taylor, The Stone Age by Jen Hadfield - Magma (autumn 2021)

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Review of Strangers by Rebecca Tamás and A Nazi Word For A Nazi Thing by So Mayer - Poetry Wales 57.1 (summer 2021)

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Four blogs and a cento - Poetry Business (blog, 2021)

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Editing

Bi+ Lines anthology (published by fourteen poems in late 2023)

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Origins of the Fire Emoji: Focus on Dead [Women] Poets, Modern Poetry in Translation (Autumn 2020)

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The Poetry Society's Young Poets Network (editor 2017-2023)

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