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POETRY PUBLICATIONS

Want me to read your poems? Submit to Sweet Mammalian <3

Work forthcoming in: The Georgia Review, The Threepenny Review, Gigantic Sequins

Palette Poetry 

Phyllodes Reveries (Sappho Prize)

 

Bear Review

Fidelities

Desire Lines

Sixth Finch

Bill's Beer Garden

Where There's Smoke There's Smoke

Phoebe

Birth Control

New Delta Review

Poem to be read in a backless halterneck dress with a lingering odor of burnt hair

HAD

Heart React

Would you love me if I was a worm

Animal Wrongs

Good Boy

Cordite Poetry Review

Hardcore Pastorals (chapbook)

Bareback

Cowgirl Century

Glass: A Journal of Poetry

Carrion Flower

Salt Hill 

Nepenthes Terrarium (Philip Booth Poetry Prize)

​Best New Zealand Poems 

Gremlin in Sundress

Is it cruelty

Phyllodes Reveries

Broaches: Ecology of Poetry

Department of Conversation

The Spinoff 

WILD GEESE BY MARY OLIVER BY HERA LINDSAY BIRD BY REBECCA HAWKES

While you were partying I studied the blade

Hobart Pulp

Three poems

​Bad Apple dot Gay

It's Morbin' Time

Mad Butcher's Love Song

MTN DILK

Takahē 

Beer can chickens

Callow country with indoor bloodsuckers

Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology

The land without teeth

Out Here: an anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa

Three poems

​Eel Magazine

I can be your angle...😇 or yuor devil 👹

​Stasis

Nemesis Mine
Lilac & Gooseberry

Minarets

Any crystal can purify you if you are sufficiently committed to stabbing yourself through the heart with it

Pantograph Punch

Spiraliser

Rust + Moth

Winter 2019:  Still life with stone fruit and stripper

Sweet Mammalian

Issue 5:          The cave draws u in like a breath

​Starling
Issue 1:          Three poems & an essay
Issue 4:          Three poems
Issue 5:          Two poems
Issue 7:          Three poems & a collaboration
​Issue 8:          Four poems

​Sport
Issue 45:       The salt lamp I got you for your birthday
Issue 46:       Three poems
Issue 47:       Glass glitters better than diamond under such splintered light (also anthologized in A Game Of Two Halves: the best of Sport)

Mayhem

Issue 5:          Pony club summer camp +  Would I recognise the garden if I saw it
Issue 6:          The land without teeth

Mimicry

Issue 4:          Crush
Issue 5:          3 poems

Capital Magazine

The Flexitarian

Scum Magazine

Dairy Queen

Bracken 

Two poems

​Landfall

Issue 235:      Cold speculum + Add penetrant to preferred broadleaf herbicide & devastate the wildflowers
Issue 239:      If I could breed your cultivar I'd have you in my garden
​Issue 240: Trespassers Will Be Shot / Survivors Will Be Shot Again
Issue 243: Venus of Oamaru & Possum Fur Nipple Warmers

​Turbine / Kapohau

2016: The walls of the pit were too high for her to climb out unassisted + The reading room
2017: Fruju Tropical Snow + Strip Club DJ Drops Beat
​2019: The Protagonists
2020: Poem for my wife + The Conservationist
2021: Waif & Stray

2022: Two bodies, one bed, one flea

2024: Touching Grass + The Enunciation

Radio New Zealand

 Hookworm (read by Frith Horan)

Better Off Read

Any machine can be a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough

AUP New Poets 5 conversation

Queer the Pitch: Poetry from LGBTQIA+ people across Aotearoa

Softcore bushwalk

Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa / NZ Women’s Comics

Comics 

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