In March 2018 I was very fortunate to be accepted to the Poetry Ireland Introductions scheme for 2018. The series is designed to equip and encourage poets at the early stages of their careers, through a series of workshops and culminating in a performance at the International Dublin Literary Festival in May 2018. Approximately 200 people applied in 2018, and 12 were selected by the multi-award winning poet Sinead Morrissey. The first two workshops were held in Poetry Ireland’

Towards the end of my year as Fenland Poet Laureate, I was delighted to participate in an exhibition at Cambridge Contemporary Art. The exhibition ran from 5-25 March and featured a selection of my poetry alongside prints by celebrated fine-art printmaker, Iona Howard. This was the culmination of a process of collaborating with Iona, over the course of the year. It had been a thrilling an invigorating process to work with Iona, whose work focuses on some of the Fenland lands