A Stint in Your Spotlight

POETRY BOOKS:

– Real Estate (second full-length collection, from Salmon Poetry, May 2026)

– Masters (a chapbook, published by The Emma Press, October 2025)

– I Was a Teenage Exorcist (a chapbook, published in September 2024 from Chaps Poetry, order Europe/US)

– Faultlines (an interactive branching sonnet, print version March 2024 / online version January 2022)

– Nightlight (first full-length collection from Salmon Poetry, February 2023)

– HIKE (a limited ed. prose/haiku hybrid chapbook from Bear Creek Press, April 2022 – out of print)

– Carcass (a chapbook, published in May 2020 from Seven Kitchens Press, as part of their Editor’s Series)

– Circumference (a chapbook, published in August 2018 by Finishing Line Press. For reviews, see Press.)

AWARDS: (see this page for more info)

POEMS:

– Pumpkin in (tba)

– The Circle Game in the anthology, Who’s the King? (May/June 2026)

– Flâneur in Banshee #21 (May/June 2026)

– A Whispered Prayer in Skylight47 #21 (May/June 2026)

– 10 Poems (Friday; A Note to My Biographer; Ice Cream in the Sun; Apathy; Pass; To The Men Who Laughed When I Asked Them If They Were on PreP; Last Sunday; Situationship; Commandments from The New Life; But The Nights) in Assaracus #28 (April 2026)

– Crevice in SCAB #18 (March 2026)

– Sky Burial, translated into Italian by Piero Toto, published in Atelier (February 2026)

– Accompaniment in Poetry Ireland Review #147: Love Poetry (December 2025)

– Miss Delphi in SCAB #17 (September 2025)

– Happiness, Then in Fruit #8 (May 2025)

– I’m Not There in SCAB #16 (March 2025)

– Winter Journal (section two) in Poetry Ireland Review #144 (December 2024)

– Hunger in Southword 47 (November 2024)

– Poem Beginning with a Line from Jean Sprackland in Skylight47 #19 (October 2024)

– Romantic Landscape in HOWL New Irish Writing 2024 (October 2024)

– In Another Life in The Orphic Review (September 2024)

– Callus in SCAB #15 (September 2024)

– Lease in Poetry with Pride (July 2024)

– Dish Haiku, published as a broadside by Travesties Press. The original poem, in Polari, was published by them in 2022. The facing translation, by the author, is published here for the first time. (June 2024).

– Bellyache, Tactics, Matter, The Hotel Mirror & Heft in Oh Yeah! An Anthology of Bear Poetry, ed. Raymond Luczak (June 2024)

– In the Air & Lightened in & Change #6 (May 2024)

– The Commuter Town in Crannóg 60 (April 2024)

– Low Ceilings and Latent in Shearsman #139/#140 (April 2024)

– Impale in SCAB #14 (March 2024)

– Medical Students and Hovercraft in Masculinity: an anthology of modern voices (Jan 2024)

– this stranger doesn’t feel like one & In Phoenix Park in New Isles Press #2 (Jan 2024)

– The Shipping Forecast and Impel in Limp Wrist #9, Part 2 (tba 2024)

– Afton (Evening) & Bathing in Pride Poets Anthology (December 2023)

– crush in The Stony Thursday Book 2023 (November 2023)

– The Scene in the Horror Movie Where the Child Draws Disturbing Pictures Over and Over in SCAB #13 (September 2023)

– 18.10.59 – 15.02.60 in Poetry Ireland Review 140 (August 2023)

– The Critics in Banshee #15 (Spring/Summer 2023)

– Cherry Trees, Winter in Queerlings #7 (April 2023)

– Al and The Duel in BOLD (April 2023)

– Don Quixote in Lidl in Visual Verse (January 2023)

– Sympathy in The Stony Thursday Book 2022 (December 2022)

– Sunset in The North #68 (November 2022 – coverdate August 2022)

– Soldier Dancing in Skylight47 #16 (September 2022)

– Afterimage in SCAB #11 (September 2022)

– Police Sketch in The Irish Independent (August 2022)

– Marsh Landscape in The Storms #1 (August 2022)

– Replica in Panning for Poems #13 (August 2022)

– cumdump and Dish Haiku in Travesties Press (June 2022)

– Evasion, Study of a Male Nude, The Skyscraper and Land and Water (No. 2) in Softblow (June 2022)

– Kinetic in Poetry Ireland Review #136 (May 2022)

– A Street in Carrara in Banshee #13 (April 2022)

– Non-Playable Character in ROPES #30 (April 2022)

– Renovation in The Honest Ulsterman (February 2022)

– Concertina in Beir Bua (November 2021)

– Home Invasion in Southword #41 (October 2021)

– Empathy in Crannóg #55 (September 2021)

– Tiny House in Fourteen Poems #5 (August 2021)

– Heft in Burly Tales: Fairy Tales for the Hirsute and Hefty Gay Man, edited by Steve Berman (August 2021)

– Listening to Lolita Podcast and Village in Mollyhouse #3 (July 2021)

– Ghost House and Link’s Awakening in Hit Points: An Anthology of Video Game Poetry, edited by Aaron Kent and Matthew Haigh (May 2021)

– 1992 in Skylight47 #14 (May 2021)

– Three Haiku in Better Than Starbucks Vol 7, No 2 (May 2021)

– Slow Evening – Winner of Dedalus Press’ Local Wonders Postcard Competition (April 2021

– Prone + I Wonder What Your Cock Tastes Like in Limp Wrist #3 (April 2021)

– Roses in a Bedroom in Pareidolia #1 (April 2021)

– Three Studies of Two Figures in SCAB #9 (April 2021)

– Sleep Over in Banshee #11 (April 2021)

– Featured Poet: 6 Poems (Maleficium, Working from Home, Catnap, Diagnosis, Inheritance and A Man in Love) in Icarus (March 2021)

– Ménage in SCAB #8 (March 2021)

– One tanka ‘The Martian dust road’ in Failed Haiku #63 (March 2021)

– False Hope, White Flag, The Farewell and Sky Burial in Softblow (March 2021)

– Landscape with Blue Pool in The Honest Ulsterman (February 2021)

– Three haiku ‘uncut summer grass’, ‘oaks await the hush’ and ‘sunset he cruises’ in The Bamboo Hut (February 2021)

– Tidy in Drawn to the Light Issue 2 (January 2021)

– Vestigial in Abridged 0-67: Nyx (December 2020)

– Icarus Dreams of the Future in Visual Verse, Volume 8 Chapter 1 (November 2020)

– Stopping Traffic and Valuation in The Failure Baler #4 (October 2020)

– Public Displays of Affection and Vegas Epithalamion in Public Displays of Affection: Poetry Ireland Introductions 2020 (October 2020)

– Prop in The Night Heron Barks #3 (October 2020)

– Troy in Riggwelter #30 (October 2020)

– A History of Empathy, Jet Lag, Urge and Chiaroscuro in SOFTBLOW (October 2020)

– Threads in Banshee #10 (September 2020)

– Haiku ‘snowmen peacocking’ in Eastern Structures #14 (July 2020)

– Hibernating, Supplicant and Criticism in Mollyhouse #1 (June 2020)

– Carer in The Honest Ulsterman (June 2020)

– A Dog’s Life in Boyne Berries #28: The Covid Issue (April 2020)

– Haiku ‘the empty bus drives’ (aka Covid Haiku #3) in Pendemic (April 2020)

– New Build in Visual Verse (April 2020)

– Haiku ‘a line of trees sway’ (aka Covid Haiku #2) in Pendemic (April 2020)

– Detached in The New Verse News (April 2020)

– Haiku ‘imagined spring’ (aka Covid Haiku #1) in Pendemic (March 2020)

– Masked for Masked in Pendemic (March 2020)

– Love in the Time of Corona in The New Verse News (March 2020)

– Public Displays of Affection in Boyne Berries #27 (March 2020)

– Four haiku: ‘tiny ponytail’, ‘trying haiku’, ‘insulated heat’ and ‘the first time I asked’in Better Than Starbucks (March 2020)

– The Swamp in The Honest Ulsterman (February 2020)

– Swordswallower and How to Get a Head in Advertising in The Queer Body, a YesPoetry chapbook, edited by Joanna C. Valente (Jan 2020)

– Her Gaze in Visual Verse (Jan 2020)

– Two haiku: ‘hunched over’ and ‘rain like a threat’ in The Bamboo Hut (Jan 2020)

– Six haiku: ‘Dublin this morning’, ‘summer rehearsal’, ‘scarf the length’, ‘clouds landscaping’, ‘a sluggish cd’, ‘a September chill’ in Eastern Structures #12 (December 2019)

– Promiscuous in Peculiar #7 (December 2019)

– Haiku/Tanka sequence: ‘dreamt a starring role’, ‘body drugged’, ‘oceanlight’, ‘the duvet swaddles’ and ‘festival launch’in What Rough Beast (November 2019)

– Turkish Bath in HIV Here + Now (November 2019)

– Two haiku: ‘summer rehearsal’ and ‘a sluggish cd’ in Failed Haiku 47 (November 2019)

– Exam in The New Verse News (October 2019)

– Carcass in Animal (October 2019)

– Neurotic Break in Bleached Butterfly Vol 1.2 (September 2019)

– Greedy Girls in Skylight 47 #12 (September 2019)

– The Office Carpet: A Disaster Movie, Landmark: An Audio Guide, Kate and Gristle in SOFTBLOW (September 2019)

– Read Vegas Epithalamion on RTÉ Radio 1’s Arena, 20th June 2019 (listen here)

– Visible Threat in The New Verse News (June 2019)

– Accesso in The Honest Ulsterman (June 2019)

– The Ailment Ward in Bleached Butterly 1.1 (June 2019)

– Love Song in YesPoetry (June 2019)

– Lifesaver in The New Verse News (June 2019)

– The No Campaign in the anthology Stonewall’s Legacy (May 2019)

– Apologia in Cordite #91: MONSTER (May 2019)

– Date and Late Night at the Lethe in Wussy #6 (April 2019)

– Discord in HIV Here + Now (April 2019)

– An Avalanche, Interrupted and A Poem for Actors in the anthology Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman, edited by Raymond Luczak (April 2019)

– Bus in Boyne Berries #25 (March 2019)

– Mobile Library in The Irish Times (Feb 2019)

– College Roommate in The Ekphrastic Review (Feb 2019)

– Ellipsis in Panning for Poems #10 (Feb 2019)

– Circadian in Visual Verse (Jan 2019)

– Kevin Spacey Watches the Final Season of House of Cards in The New Verse News (December 2018)

– The Lads in WUSSY (November 2018)

– The Doctors Say in Cordite #88: TRANSQUEER (November 2018)

– Under, Neat in HIV Here + Now (November 2018)

– Mitko Responds in Lunch (August 2018)

– Ten Steps to be Correctly Consumed by a City in Headstuff (June 2018)

– Zoetrope in Vast Sky #2 (May 2018)

– Freddie in HIV Here + Now (April 2018)

– A Life in Pictures in Poetry Ireland Review #124 (April 2018)

– Signal Deterioration in SCAB #2 (March 2018)

– The Pit in Your Stomach in Skylight47 #9 (November 2017)

– Monsters in the Closet in SCAB #1 (September 2017)

– Mother Tongue in The New Verse News (July 2017)

– Conjugate in Tincture #18 (1st June 2017)

– Dorsal in Animal Literary Magazine (May 2017. Online here)

– Bare on the Na(HIV)PoWriMo project (23rd April, 2017. Online here)

– The Imaginary Friend in “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” series on Headstuff (Feb 2017)

– Basic Training in The Good Men Project (January 2017)

– Exemplar in Vast Sky #1 (December 2016)

– Local in Tincture #16 (December 2016)

– Blackbird in Studies in Arts and Humanities, Vol 2, No. 2 (December 2016)

– Blue Boy in Assaracus #24 (October 2016, order from the publisher here, or Amazon here)

– Yggdrasil in the anthology Not Just Another Pretty Face (April 2016, Beautiful Dreamer Press)

– Gown on the HIV Here & Now Project (17th March 2016, online here)

– Armature in the anthology The Myriad Carnival (Feb 2016, Glitterwolf Publications, order here)

– Resisting Existence in Tincture #13 (February 2016)

– The New World in Off The Rocks 19: “Taking Pride in the Past” (Dec 2015, NewTown Writers

– Motive, Murder and exposéd in Glitterwolf: Halloween 2 (October 2015)

– Impersonation as Supplication and Upon Seeing ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ in Glitterwolf #9 (July 2015)

– Night Sweats in Glitterwolf #8 (April 2015, reprinted Feb 2016 online at The Good Men Project)

– The Night It Was Decided That Dublin Needed A New Gay Sauna in The Wild Ones #1 (Jan 2015 – WordPress/Facebook)

– Religious Education (i), Religious Education (ii) and Religious Education (iii) in Glitterwolf #7 (Jan 2015)

– Revenge in Glitterwolf: Halloween Special (October 2014)

– A School Photograph in Storm Cellar (August 2014 – pre-release ebook here / pre-order print here – also now featured on their website here with the full poem as pdf here)

– The Full Deck in Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed (Online August 2014 from Upstart: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies – link to my poem here – link to the index of poems here / Out later in 2014 in print from Parlor Press)

– Next Town Over Kid in The Good Men Project (July 2014 – link to poem here)

– Late Night Television in the Afternoon in Glitterwolf #5 (Feb 2014, Print Edition / Ebook Edition)

– Mongrel in Emerge Literary Journal’s Winter 2013 Volume II (poetry issue, Dec 2013)

– Seven poems in Assaracus #11, July 2013
(The Familiar / Period / The Sauna / Turkish Delight / Mary and the Marlboro Man / Cut-Up / Early Teenage Homosexuality)

POETRY AS EDITOR:
In 2017, I founded Impossible Archetype, an international journal of LGBTQ+ poetry.
There are two issues per year, and they are viewable as a free pdf on our website here.

POETRY REVIEWS: 

– Review of Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem (Limp Wrist, January 2021)

PROSE/PLAYS/OTHER WRITING PROJECTS:

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