He studied modern languages and linguistics then European Studies. Though he has spent the last 15 years working abroad, including most recently for three years in Paris, he regularly attends poetry readings and workshops in London and across the UK, including the fortnightly Coffee-House Poetry readings at the Troubadour. He has published poems in journals including Magma, Poetry London, The Rialto and The North, as well as the experimental anthology ‘Adventures in Form‘ (Penned in the Margins, 2012).