Biography

2007 Ulster performance poetry champion.
2007 All-Ireland Performance Poetry Championship (runner-up)

Organiser of The Future GCSE Poetry Syllabus showcase and co organiser of Skint but Articulate.

Has supported John Cooper Clark and Stewart Home.

Has been published in magzines such as Fire, Citizen 32, Fuselit and Black Mountain Review.

Samples

Farmer


Sometimes I want to become a farmer.
Not because my ancestors were farmers
And I'm supposed to have it in my blood,
Nor is it because I've lived on a farm
And the experience inspired me.

I don't want to be the sort of farmer
That Heaney talks about in his poems,
A farmer that is at one with the land
And farms not as their job but as their life.

I want to be a farmer like Burroughs.
I would wait out my boredom on my farm
Keep busy with hard work and earn money
And when I leave I would leave my boredom
Lying battered in the soil behind me
With a snapped shovel bloody beside it.

As Appeared in Fire Issue 26

Your Bathroom an Apology


I am sorry
For the night
In your house
When you
Were smug
And rude
To me,
And I left
Your room
And went
To your bathroom,
Where I
Did rip
Your toilet
From the floor
With a giggle
And surprising ease,
And then set it
Back in place
With a dislocated downpipe.

And I'm sorry
That when
You use it
And try
To flush it
It will
Come back
To haunt you
When the toilet
Spills its dirty secret
All over your bathroom floor
And wipes the smug smile
From your face
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha.

As Appeared in Black Mountain Review Issue 10

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