I am a poet and filmmaker, and an emerging librettist. I write about post-traumatic stress, mythmaking, chronic illness, queer experiences, and bats.
I am an alum of The London Library's Emerging Writers Programme, the Barbican Young Poets and the Writing Squad. I won the 2020 Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2024. My pamphlet, He Said I Was a Peach, is published with ignitionpress.
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My first short, You Look Fine, won Best Writer at BFI Future Film Festival and has screened at numerous Academy Award and BAFTA-recognised festivals. My second film project, The Styx, in development, is supported by Arts Council England.
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More about film.
I am a Britten Pears Young Artist 2023-24 and was poet-in-residence on the English Song Course at Snape Maltings in 2023.
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latest news
I'll be performing at YER BARD at the Social in Copeland Park, Peckham, on 23rd October, alongside Daisy Lafarge, Abi Palmer, Jasmine Cooray and Yer Bard's host, Vida Adamczewski. All poets live with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder, and proceeds from tickets will support EDS UK . More info & tickets.
My poem 'a moth' was shortlisted for the London Magazine Poetry Prize 2024 and was subsequently published in the August/September issue of The London Magazine.
I am the current recipient of a Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) grant from the Arts Council.
I am using the fund to shape my first full-length poetry collection, to develop my libretto practice for opera and songtext, and to visit the largest urban bat colony in North America, in Austin, Texas.
I am using the fund to shape my first full-length poetry collection, to develop my libretto practice for opera and songtext, and to visit the largest urban bat colony in North America, in Austin, Texas.
A poem of mine was selected for Magma 88: Underworld, and I read at the London launch on 19th April at the Royal Geographical Society, alongside L. Kiew, Fiona Benson, Meryl Pugh and Jemma Borg. More info & tickets.
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