His poetry collections The Siege of the Body and a Brief Respite (2004) and Of Whales: in Print, in Paint, in Sea, in Stars, in Coin, in House, in Margins (2010) were both published by Salt Publishing. In 2010, he received The Boston Review Poetry Prize for the first five poems in the then ongoing collection The Victor Poems which has since been published in full in 2015 by Shearsman. He is also currently a professor of poetry at Plymouth University.