Reading List

"Read widely, and without apology." - Joyce Carol Oats

There's many more I could add to these lists initially, but I have a terrible habit of writing the names on scraps of paper and then losing them; it's hard to keep track... so this page will be a work in progress and I'll do my best to update it often and with love. 

Single Poems

(In no particular order)

Robin in Flight by Paul Adrian

Rookie by Caroline Bird

Bless This House by Warsan Shire


Toward Some Meagre Body by Alec Prevett

Doctor's Note by Chen Chen

Meteor Shower by Rupa Wood

Light being Light by Maria Gray

Nam Mater Mea by Blake Auden

Sonnet with Lighthouses by Cynthia Miller

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

Lunar Baedeker by Mina Loy

The Little Miracles by Malika Booker

Elms by Louise Gluck

Here by Rick Barot

The Shout by Simon Armitage

At Roane Head by Robin Robertson


Considering the Snail by Thom Gunn

Drive by Megan Fernandes 

Beautiful Short Loser by Ocean Vuong

Gift of the Sloth by Debbie Lim


Foxglove Country by Zaffar Kunial 

One Breath by Mary Jean Chan

Last Exit to Luton by Fran Lock

I know I Ought to Love You by Selima Hill

Fuck/Humanity by Inua Ellams

Leaf by Sean Hewitt


Pollen by Claire Pollard




Violent Femmes by Nida Sophasarun


Poetry Collections


The Air Year by Caroline Bird

Seasonal Disturbances by Karen McCarthy Woolf

No Map Could Show Them by Helen Mort

Significant Other by Isabel Galleymore

This Fruiting Body by Caleb Parkin

Alter Egos A Bad Betty Press Anthology

Gradual Reduction to Bone by Kali Richmond

Bi+ Lines an Anthology of Contemporary Bi+ Poets by Helen Bowell