He convenes the long-running Shuffle poetry series in London, and was a 2012 Hawthornden Fellow. He is widely published with three pamphlets and a collection is due this year from Eyewear. His work has been translated into French (in the Sorbonne Literary Magazine), Romanian, Slovenian and Arabic , and he often performs abroad, most recently at a festival in Romania. He is the Vice-President of the European Association of Creative Writing Programmes and also practices as a therapeutic counsellor, working in the UK National Health Service.