Awards and Prizes

  • 2020 - Bird Cottage longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award

  • 2020 - StAnza Festival Masterclass with Mimi Khalvati

    for my poem ‘Net-making’

  • 2019 - Bird Cottage shortlisted for the Vondel Prize

  • 2018 - StAnza Festival Masterclass with Gillian Allnutt

    for my poem ‘Night Thoughts’

  • 2018 - Prizewinner Open Category The Stephen Spender Prize

    for ‘How poetry was discovered’ by Abdelkader Benali

  • 2017 - Prizewinner Open Category The Stephen Spender Prize

    for ‘Wind-still’ by Leo Vroman

  • Visiting Research Fellowship at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

  • 2016 - PEN Presents… Europe Translation Pitch - one of six prizewinners

    for an extract from Cellar Child by Kristien Dieltens

  • 2015 - Hawthornden Fellowship for Literary Translation

  • 2013 - The Stephen Spender Prize Open Category Commended

    for ‘Safeguard’ by Ed Leeflang

  • 2012 - The Stephen Spender Prize Open Category Commended

    for ‘Alcyone’ by Ed Leeflang

  • 2010 - John Dryden Translation Prize - 3rd Prize

    for ‘Lord Halewijn’ - a verse drama by Martinus Nijhoff

  • 2009 - Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize - 2nd prizewinner

    for my poem ‘Where Places Exist’

  • 2009 - Dean’s Studentship (two years) awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of East Anglia

    for my PhD studies in Literary Translation

  • 2007 - Mirehouse Poetry Competition - Highly Commended

    for my poem ‘Your Grandmother’

  • 2006 - Ways with Words ‘Voice’ Poetry Competition - Highly Commended

    for my poem ‘Little Task’

  • 2005 - Mirehouse Poetry Competition - Highly Commended

    for my poem ‘Metamorphosis’

  • 2004 - Masterclasss with Paul Farley

    for my poem ‘Gecko’

  • 2003/2004 - Finalist Song Furnace: a community song-writing project led by Dave Camlin

    After a career teaching English Literature, World Literature, English Language, Drama and Theatre Studies in the UK and abroad, I started on the long path towards establishing myself as a poet, writer, and literary translator. The awards and prizes detailed in the list above are a record of some of my successes in this field.