Poetry

My 2017 pamphlet Sheffield Almanac is published by Longbarrow Press. It’s a poem in four chapters about rivers, rain, relocation and regeneration, exploring the industrial past and post-industrial future of my adopted home city.
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(See also: Model City, my essay for the Longbarrow blog about Sheffield’s civic identity and the implications of being a ‘city of making’)

Pulp

My new poem sequence Pulp is a reflection on disposability and renewal and a response to Sheffield’s recent programmes of tree felling and library closure. It was published in October 2019 in DW Cities: Sheffield, an anthology from Dostoyevsky Wannabe.
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Print journals

Recent issues of Route 57 feature my work, the most recent being #15 (theme: ‘environs’/urban nature), which includes ‘The River Don Shipping Forecast’ and ‘Three Views of Chapman’s Pond’. The railway-themed #14 has a couple in as well. Both are stunningly designed.
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Under the Radar issue 22 includes two of my poems: ‘If Anything Happens to Me’ and ‘Love Song of Ingleton Road’.
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The Fenland Reed includes my poem ‘The Absences’ in issue 7 (autumn 2018).
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Issue 26 of Prole, published in summer 2018, includes my poem ‘Millennials’.
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I’m the Featured Poet in issue 66 of The Interpreter’s House. This means it includes three of my poems (‘Growing Seasons’, ‘Far North Line’ and ‘I am the king of Belgium‘) and they rather grandly call me Peter instead of plain old Pete.
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