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Select Published Poems


2026

The Honest Ulsterman, Colour Me Pink on a Cloudy Day, February 2026
Image Journal Issue #127 (Seattle), Low Blood Sugar, January 2026 (print)
EcoTheo Review, DEATH RITUALS, forthcoming
Poetry Salzburg Review No. 43, After Listening to PM Justin Trudeau’s Response to U.S. Tariffs, February 2026 (print)

2025

The Belfast Review Issue 5, Dissertation as RNLI Service Update, December 2025
Banshee, a Literary Journal, Issue 19, Field, Spring/Summer 2025 (print)
The Waxed Lemon #9, Concertina at Noon in the Harty Room, June 2025 (print)
Seamus Heaney Centre with The Ulster Museum, SOMETIMES THE LINE STARTS ELSEWHERE, An Ekphrasis Pamphlet,” Ulster I, Ulster 2, May 2025 (print)
The Apiary Magazine, Issue 9, Queen’s University Belfast, Balancing Act, and Interface, October 2025 (print)
MA Poetry 2024/25 Queen’s University Belfast, Pamphlet, LET THE LEGEND NAME THE PLACE, Nobu-san ノブさん, Sequence at The River Lagan Installation “Drift,” July 2025 (print)
Drawn to the Light Press Issue 16, WHEN THE MEN CAME CLOSE UP, THEY SAID: “WHERE IS THE FIRE?” 
BUT THE WOMEN REPLIED: “THERE IS NO FIRE.” October 2025 (digital and print)
EVENT Magazine 53/3 The Douglas College Review, Ode to your Brooch, Tending the Garden from Outer Space, and Eldest, January 2025 (print)

2024

Poetry Ireland Review #143, Edited by Mícheál McCann, Pink Pants, August 2024 (print)
Poem Alone Blog, (Ed. Colin Dardis, Belfast), Pollinators, July 24, 2024 (digital)
Sunday Mornings at the River, “It’s Not Symptomatic. It’s Systemic.” Anthology, Excommunicated, St. Francis as an Icon of Being Earnest, September 2024 (print)
Up! magazine, Rowan, July 2024 (digital and installation), displayed at the Cullercoats Festival, North Shields, UK
Geez Magazine, Summer Geez 73: Fire, Controlled Burn, June 2024 (print)
Faith Today Magazine, Easter Poems, Pollinators, March 2025 (digital), If It Be Possible Let This Pass, March 2024 (print, digital), One Day, March 2023 (print, digital), Easter Supplement, On Volunteering Twice a Week at the Drop-in Centre, Everything and Always, March 2023 (digital), A Prayer for Greening, March 2022 (digital), Eucharisteo, March 2021 (digital and print)

2023

Letters Journal (Yale Divinity School – Yale Institute of Sacred Music), I Will Cover You with My Hand Until I Have Passed By, January 2023 (digital)
Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality & the Arts (Northeastern University, USA), Heaven is a White-Tailed Deer, Issue 9, Published January 2025 (digital), A Prayer for When We Run Out of Lettuce, Issue 7, December 2023 (digital) 
League of Canadian Poets, Poetry Pause, Be Sure to Wear Comfortable Shoes, Oct. 2023, On Days When Regret Has A Voice, Mar. 2023, One As You Are One—A Meditation, August 6, 2021, The Mind Transplant, May 2021 (digital, cross membership distribution via email subscription)
Ekstasis Magazine, current events, April 2023 (digital)
The Catholic Poetry Room, A Prayer for Greening, February 2023 (digital)
The Ekphrastic Review, Mother, God, January 2023 (digital)

2022 and prior

Wine Country Writers Festival Writing Contest Winners Anthology: FIRST PLACE in POETRY, The Moment in Which I Love Her, September 2022 (print)
League of Canadian Poets, Fresh Voices #22, The Mind Transplant, Apr. 2021 (digital), Fresh Voices #20A Girl is Capable of Baiting Hooks and Drowning Worms in a River, June 2020 (digital)
Presence Journal, Spiritual Directors International, Arrivals, March 2021 (print and digital by paid subscription)
Fare Well Poetry Project, Migrations, February 2021 (digital).
The Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2020 Anthology, LONGLISTED, When I said I Promise to Follow You All the Days of My Life, I wasn’t Telling A Lie, September 2020 (print)
WordWorks Magazine, Federation of BC Writers Literary Writes Contest, First Place, What You Carry, March 2019
Barren Magazine, Issue 2, Original Wisdom, September 2018 (digital)
Inspired By Collection, Summerland Art Gallery, The Lifespan of Peaches, Original Wisdom, Artist’s Invocation, and Love Poem for Morning, August 2018 (installation and leaflet)
Cascadia Review, Vineyard, And So It Goes, Pacific Chorus, and Survey Crew, Fall 2015 (digital)
Pantheos
— Sarah over the Moon: Liberating Liturgies, Blessed be, October 2014 (digital)
Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, Volume X, Let’s Eat Pineapple, September 2014 (print)
One Throne Magazine, Issue 2, Desert, July 2014 (digital)
The Antigonish Review, Issue #177, Sea Fleur/Vagabond Mauve, and Survey Crew, Spring 2014 (print)
Leaf Press, Monday’s Poem, Migrations, 2013 (digital)
Leaf Press, Oak Leaflet, Speak in Now, October 2013 (print)
CV-2 (Contemporary Verse 2), Vol. 36 No. 1, Migrations, Summer 2013 (print)
The Weight She Holds, Leaf Press, edited by Patrick Lane, Body Image, July 2013 (print)
Lake Journal, Soundings, University of British Columbia, Scotch Mints, Spring 2009 (digital)

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