I am a lecturer, poet and writing tutor. I work in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter.

My anthology Lifesaving Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015.

In 2012 I published Riddance (Worple Press), a collection of poems, and Love for Now (Impress Books), a memoir, about my experience of cancer.

The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, is published by Blue Diode Press.

Plymbridge, a new pamphlet of poems, is forthcoming from Worple Press in May.

Becoming a Poet: Young Poets' Stories of Composition and Creative Development is forthcoming from Bloomsbury.

My current research project, with Nottingham Trent University and funded by the Foyle Foundation, is Young Poets' Stories.