My work has been widely published in journals, magazines, anthologies and online. In 2015 one of my poems was featured in ‘Poet’s Corner’ in The Sunday Times.
I won first prize in the Paper Swans Press Single Poem Competition 2020 and second prize in the BBC Wildlife Poet of the Year Competition 2008. I had a poem commended in the Café Writers Open Poetry Competition 2020. In 2019 I was awarded a Developing Your Creative Practice grant by Arts Council England, to be mentored for a year by Rebecca Goss.
Journals and magazines: The Alchemy Spoon, Ambit, BBC Wildlife, Brittle Star, Butcher’s Dog, Envoi, Fenland Poetry Journal, The Fenland Reed, Finished Creatures, Iota, Lighthouse, Magma, Mslexia, The North, Poetry Birmingham, Poetry Wales, Smoke, Under the Radar
Anthologies: The Best British Poetry 2012 (Salt), Living with Other People (Corrupted Poetry), Places of Poetry: Mapping the Nation in Verse (Oneworld), Ten Poems about Daughters (Candlestick Press)
Online: And Other Poems, Atrium, Ink Sweat and Tears, The Interpreter’s House, MIROnline
You can read a few of my poems here:
Image: cover design for Ten Poems about Daughters by Caroline Barker