I am a London-based poet and editor.

I received an Eric Gregory Award in 2001, and in the same year I was shortlisted for the Poetry Society’s Dearmer Prize and included in Anvil New Poets 3, edited by Roddy Lumsden and Hamish Ironside.

In 2004, I published my debut collection, The Never-Never, which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. In 2011, I published an artist’s book, Uncertain Territories, collaborating with Mary Modeen. In 2017, Rack Press published a pamphlet, Flowers, now sold out. My second full collection, published in October 2023 and a Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year, is Hollywood or Home.

My poems, articles, and reviews have appeared widely in leading journals, and I have contributed to several arts programmes for the BBC. I have taught for both the Arvon Foundation and the Poetry School.

From 2008 to 2011, I edited Wales’s leading literary journal, New Welsh Review. I was the editor of Parthian Books from 2011 to 2012, during which time I oversaw publication of a number of prize-winning and prize-shortlisted titles. In 2019, I edited a collection of interviews with contemporary Welsh and Wales-associated poets, Voices and Visions (Peter Lang), which was one of the outcomes of a major Leverhulme Trust grant, Devolved Voices.

With comrades Kate Bingham, Martha Kapos, Kathryn Maris, William Wootten, and Andrew Neilson, I co-edit the spoken magazine/performance lab/faculty Music Room Poetry. Also with poet and critic Andrew Neilson, I am co-founder and co-editor of the digital poetry journal Bad Lilies.

I have served as a Management Board Director of Literature Wales, a Trustee of Tŷ Newydd, and a Trustee of The Poetry Society, during which time I also served as Co-chair.