Joe is a poet from the North Pennines. His interests are primarily in landscape, subjectivity, memory, and music. He was a Foyle Young Poet and was shortlisted for the Young Northern Writers Awards. His poetry has been featured in The Little Review, Ink Sweat & Tears, Magma, The Mays 32 & 34, Carmen Et Error, The Madrigal, and Anthropocene. He is currently working on a debut pamphlet and a song cycle with composer Andrew Weeks.

Joe has guest edited Anthropocene, The Mays 33, and is co-editor of the DIRT plantable poetry pamphlet competition; he also interned with Bloodaxe Books. He was a T.S. Eliot Prize Young Critic, and his reviews and other journalism have been featured in Varsity and the North East Labour History Journal. Joe studies at Cambridge University, where he has been supervised by Robert Macfarlane on a dissertation entitled ‘Moves of Subjectivity in Contemporary British Landscape Poetry’. He is preparing to continue with an MPhil at Cambridge. During his time there, Joe organised a series of poetry events with Mary Jean Chan, Vona Groarke, Katrina Porteous, Rowan Williams, Hannah Copley, and others. He has also acted various shows in Cambridge and London.

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Recent work:

DIRT pamphlet competition

’Cuthbert’ in The Little Review

Review of Hannah Copley’s ‘Lapwing’ for the T.S. Eliot Prize