Publications
Solo Poetry Collections:
Dandelions for Mothers’ Day (Stride 1988 and 1989)
The Fiddle: New and Selected Poems (Stride 1999)
The Way We Came (bluechrome 2007)
Critical Works:
Focus on Spies by Michael Frayn (Greenwich Exchange 2008)
Focus on The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter (Greenwich
Exchange2009)
Focus on Selected Poems by John Clare – Everyman Edition (in progress)
Editor:
The Least Thing (Stride 1989) Foreword by George Szirtes
Making Connections, A Festschrift for Matt Simpson (Stride 1996)
Manchester Poets Competition Anthologies I & II
Brando’s Hat editorial board
Anthologies:
New Christian Poetry edited by Alwyn Marriage (Collins 1990)
Frankenstein’s Daughter edited by Sara Boyes (Stride 1993)
Ladder to the Next Floor edited by Rupert Loydell (University of Salzburg 1993)
Poets England – Lancashire edited by Gladys Mary Coles (Headland 1995)
Also Poets England – Cheshire
Voices for Kosovo edited by Rupert Loydell (Stride 1999)
The Way You Say The World - a celebration for Anne Stevenson edited by John Lucas and
Matt Simpson (Shoestring 2003)
Life Lines (Cheshire Prize for Literature) edited by Ashley Chantler (Chester Academic Press
2004)
Sounding Heaven and Earth edited by David Grubb (The Canterbury Press and the Spire
Trust 2004)
Home edited by ceth (clan-u press 2007)
Elements (Cheshire Prize for Literature) edited by Peter Blair (Chester Academic Press 2007)
Therefore I am edited by ceth (clan-u press 2008)
Homage to Cheshire edited by W. Terry Fox (Cheshire County Council 2009)
Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh edited by Rupert Loydell (Salt 2009)
Children’s Anthologies:
The Bees Knees (Stride 1990)
The Bees Sneeze (Stride 1992)
Can You Hear? Poems for Oxfam edited by John Foster (Collins 1992)
Snoggers chosen by David Orme (Macmillan 1995)
We Was Robbed chosen by David Orme (Macmillan1997)
Unzip Your Lips edited by Paul Cookson (Macmillan 1998)
Gradgrind’s Children compiled by Gary Boswell (Ure 1998)
Spotlight on Poetry (Collins 1999)
Teachers’ Pets chosen by Paul Cookson (Macmillan 1999)
The Upside Down Frown collected by Andrew Fusek Peters (Wayland 1999)
The Works chosen by Paul Cookson (Macmillan 2000)
Jenny Kissed Me compiled by Fred Sedgwick (The Questions Publishing Co. 2000)
The Moonlit Stream compiled by John Foster (OUP 2000)
Ready Steady Rap collected by John Foster (OUP 2001)
Moondust and Mystery chosen by John Foster (OUP 2002)
What Shape is a Poem? (Macmillan 2002)
101 Favourite Poems compiled by John Foster (Collins 2002)
Will There Really Be A Morning? Compiled by Fred Sedgewick (David Fulton Publishers 2002)
I Remember I Remember edited by Brian Moses (Macmillan 2003)
My Stepdad is an Alien chosen by David Harmer (Macmillan 2003)
Who Rules The School Now compiled by Paul Cookson (Macmillan 2003)
Spectacular chosen by Paul Cookson and David Harmer (Macmillan 2004)
Sensational chosen by Roger McGough (Macmillan 2004)
Read Me and Laugh chosen by Gaby Morgan (Macmillan 2005)
Trick or Treat chosen by Paul Cookson (Macmillan 2005)
The Poetry Store chosen by Paul Cookson (Hodder 2005)
The Universal Vacuum Cleaner compiled by John Foster (OUP 2005)
Best Friends chosen by Fiona Walters (Macmillan 2006)
The Works 5 chosen by Paul Cookson (Macmillan 2006)
Read Me Out Loud chosen by Nick Toczek and Paul Cookson (Macmillan 2007)
The Elements on Poetry: Poems about Earth chosen by Andrew Fusek Peters (Evans Bros
2007)
Poetry Magazines and Journals:
London Magazine, Critical Survey, Iron, Stride, Slope, Honest Ulsterman, Aireings, Envoi,
Orbis, Other Poetry, Smoke, Outposts, Free Verse, Brando’s Hat (also co-editor), South Coast
Poetry Journal (USA), Fortnight, Ore, Poetry Wales, Writing Women, The Reader, The
Argotist, nthposition, Prop, The Affectionate Punch, Message in a Bottle.
Educational:
DCSF Standards Site for Geography
PSHE Resources for schools produced by The Samaritans
Open University Creative Writing Coursework book for Poetry
Amnesty International Website: Poems on Racism
Nelson Handwriting Resources and Assessment (2003)
Geography Matters (Heinemann 2000)
Teachit – regular contributor of resources, editorials etc.
Sound Off Article in ATL Union Magazine
Article in Snapshots Magazine ‘Technology and Creative Learning’ 2006
Co-author of GCSE textbook for English Literature for OCR (OUP forthcoming)