Poetry

I am one of the three Jerwood Poetry Fellows for 2021-2022, a previous winner of the London Writers’ Awards for poetry, and curator of the CRIPtic x Spread the Word d/Deaf and disabled writers’ salon and retreat. My first poetry pamphlet, Shield was published by Verve Poetry Press in January 2021.

To read some of my work, please see:

Sonnet I from Shield (link) – my poetry pamphlet exploring the frenzied intimacy of being a disabled person in the midst of pandemic, which can be purchased here (link)

Knights of the Round Table (link) with audio version (link) – a rewrite of five Arthurian myths into the context of historical events, accompanied by a podcast for Bedtime Stories for the End of the World (link) with transcript (link)

Lewisham and Harrow (link) – a collaborative poem with Daljit Nagra for the Royal Society of Literature

Bird song (link) – published in Zoeglossia

Fibrotic (link) – second prize in the Yale-UCL poetry prize 2021