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POETRY PUBLICATIONS

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

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Work forthcoming in: The Georgia Review, The Threepenny Review, Radar Poetry & elsewhere

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​Palette Poetry 

Phyllodes Reveries (Sappho Prize)

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Missouri Review

It's not the heat (it's the humidity)

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Poets.org

Shining Cuckoo

 

Bear Review

Fidelities

Desire Lines

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Sixth Finch

Bill's Beer Garden​

Where There's Smoke There's Smoke

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Phoebe

Birth Control

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New Delta Review

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

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The Swannanoa Review

Mad Zodiac

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Radar Poetry

Northern Lights

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ANOMALY

Ghost-ghazal from which no one leaves

Natural History

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HAD

Heart React

Would you love me if I was a worm

Animal Wrongs

Good Boy

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Cordite Poetry Review

Hardcore Pastorals (chapbook)

Bareback

Cowgirl Century

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Glass: A Journal of Poetry

Carrion Flower

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Salt Hill 

Nepenthes Terrarium (Philip Booth Poetry Prize)

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​Best New Zealand Poems 

Gremlin in Sundress

Is it cruelty

Phyllodes Reveries

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Broaches: Ecology of Poetry

Department of Conversation

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The Spinoff 

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

While you were partying I studied the blade

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Hobart Pulp

Three poems

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​Bad Apple dot Gay

It's Morbin' Time

Mad Butcher's Love Song

MTN DILK

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Takahē 

Beer can chickens

Callow country with indoor bloodsuckers

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Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology

The land without teeth

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

Three poems

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​Eel Magazine

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

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​Stasis

Nemesis Mine
Lilac & Gooseberry

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Minarets

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

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Pantograph Punch

Spiraliser

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Rust + Moth

Winter 2019:  Still life with stone fruit and stripper

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Sweet Mammalian

Issue 5:          The cave draws u in like a breath

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​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

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​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)

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Mayhem

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

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Mimicry

Issue 4:          Crush
Issue 5:          3 poems

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Capital Magazine

The Flexitarian​

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Scum Magazine

Dairy Queen​

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Bracken 

Two poems

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​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

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​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

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Radio New Zealand

 Hookworm (read by Frith Horan)

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Better Off Read

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

​AUP New Poets 5 conversation

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Queer the Pitch: Poetry from LGBTQIA+ people across Aotearoa

Softcore bushwalk

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

Comics 

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