“A nice, natural style and a real feel for language and rhythm”
​- Tony Bradman, poet, anthologist, reviewer & author

---

I've always enjoyed messing around with words. That's probably why I like writing poetry. Funny poetry mostly, but not always. 

​​Dinosaurs & Dinner-Ladies, my first poetry collection, is published by Otter-Barry Books - as is my second collection, Zooming the Zoo.

Both are illustrated by Tom Morgan-Jones.


​

---

You can find some of my poems in anthologies edited by other poets, too, including:

"Rather wonderful... each and every one of [the poems] needs to be read"
​- The Poetry Zone on Dinosaurs & Dinner-Ladies

"Zooming the Zoo... is superb. Mostly hilarious but also very powerful poems"
​- Jon Biddle, teacher and Reading for Pleasure expert.

"A collection of sheer brilliance with all the wit and charm we’ve come to expect from this popular fiction writer" - Lovereading4kids on Dinosaurs & Dinner-Ladies

"Zooming the Zoo is a treasure trove of poetic delight" - Through the Bookshelf 

---

In 2015 I was invited to help judge the Divine Chocolate Poetry Competition. It was great fun - and they gave me chocolate!!!!

I really like Divine - not only is it utterly yumsworthy; the people who farm the cocoa also own part of the company, so they get paid fairly.

​Below are videos of me reading the winning entries.