He lived in New Zealand for ten years where he completed a PhD on Hughes and Plath’s use of Myth, lectured in Modern Poetry at the Victoria University of Wellington and published poetry in a number of journals including Poetry New Zealand and The New Zealand Listener. Since returning to the UK he has written articles on Hughes for the Ted Hughes Society and British Library websites. He works as an editor and is working on his first book of poems Letters to a First Love from the Future.