Writing CV

Poetry and Memoir

Home Base, (The Cuba Press, 2021)

No One Home, (Mākaro Press, 2018)

Felt Intensity, (Mākaro Press, 2015)

Tongues of Ash, (Interactive Press, 2011)

Marking Time, poems from Army days (Thing One and Thing Two Publications, 2008)

Anthologised work

Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 Political Poems, (Otago University Press, Philip Temple and Emma Neale, Eds, 2017) – 1 poem

Just Off Message: a 20th anniversary anthology, (Interactive Press, Dr David P Reiter, Ed, 2017) – 4 poems

Leaving the Red Zone: poems from the Canterbury earthquakes, (Clerestory Press, James Norcliffe and Joanna Preston, Eds, 2016) – 5 poems

Scattered Feathers (New Zealand Poetry Society, Laurice Gilbert, Ed, 2015) – 1 poem

Eastbourne: an anthology, (Mākaro Press, Mary McCallum, Anne Manchester, Maggie Rainey-Smith, Eds, 2013) – 1 poem

Ice diver (New Zealand Poetry Society, Linzy Forbes, Ed, 2011) – 1 poem

Across the fingerboards (New Zealand Poetry Society, Barbara Strang, Ed, 2010) – 1 poem

Crest to Crest: Impressions of Canterbury prose and poetry, (Wily Publications, Karen Zelas, Ed, 2009) – 1 poem

Tiny gaps (New Zealand Poetry Society, Margaret Vos, Ed, 2006) – 1 poem

Caught on Canvas: Richard Ponder’s Wellington, (Coombe House, R & A Ponder, 2005) – extract from 1 poem

Journaled work

JAAM 31, (Clare Needham and Harvey Molloy, Eds, 2013) – 2 poems

Landfall 220, (Otago University Press, November 2010) – 1 poem

JAAM 27, (Ingrid Horrocks, Ed, 2008) – 1 poem

JAAM 26, (Tim Jones, Ed, 2008) – 2 poems

Idiom 23,  Volume 20 (December 2008) – 2 poems

Snorkel 5, (April 2007) – 1 poem

Landfall 214, (Otago University Press, November 2007) – 1 poem

JAAM 24, (Clare Needham and Helen Rickerby, Eds, 2006) – 4 poems

Yellow Moon, (Beverley George, Ed, Issue 20, Summer 2006) – 2 poems

Editorial work

Then and Now - Regular Force Cadet School Parkinson Class 1964 - 2004, (Parkinson Class 40th Reunion Organising Committee, 2003) 

 

Editor for As You Were!, the  blog of the President of the Regular Force Cadet Association

Awards

Albie’s Boys received a ‘commended’ in the New Zealand Poetry Society’s 2011 International Poetry Competition

Canterbury visit, Winter 1982 was awarded equal first place in the Australian Yellow Moon 2006 Spirit of Place competition

Consultant Rules, OK was shortlisted in the Kilkenny International Swift Society’s 2007 Swift Satire Poetry Competition

Missing received a ‘commended’ in the New Zealand Poetry Society’s 2015 International Poetry Competition

National Anthem was awarded a ‘highly commended’ in the Australian Yellow Moon 2006 Spirit of Place competition

Tongues of Ash, published by Brisbane-based trans-Tasman publisher Interactive Publications (IP) was awarded the publisher's 2011 'IP Picks Best First Book' prize.

The Head of Department’s Prayer on a change of Government was described as ‘just so gold’ by Tilly Lloyd of Unity Books in a review of Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 Political Poems on National Radio in August 2017

The Snow Sayer received a ‘commended’ in the New Zealand Poetry Society’s 2006 International Poetry Competition

The West Winds Gang is back was awarded first place in the International Tertiary Student Poetry section of the 2009 Australian Bauhinia Literary Awards

Town statue talk was awarded a ‘highly commended’ in the Tertiary Student Poetry section of the 2009 Australian Bauhinia Literary Awards