Honured to have a poem, Nocturnal upon the 22nd of December, being the second-shortest day of the year, as Poem of the Month this month at the Mist and Mountain Creative Platform
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April 2026 – Gyroscope Review, Spring 2026
I have a new take – Ancient History – on an old story in the latest issue of the lovely Gyroscope Review, among many fine poems there
March 2026 – Blotters’ Jotters 2
Very pleased to have a poem, Child soldier in a photograph, in Fin Hall’s new anthology Blotters’ Jotters 2
https://www.lulu.com/shop/fin-hall-and-mandy-macdonald/blotters-jotters-2/paperback/product-7kdvv79.html?page=1&pageSize=4
November 2025 – The Interpreter’s House 84
Lovely to have a poem in the new issue of The Interpreter’s House – Memo to self and other
31 October 2025 – Atrium
My poem Mary in Dundee, about Mary Shelley, is up today at Atrium – and what a perfectly-chosen date for it
https://atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/31/mary-in-dundee-judith-taylor/
August 2025 – Causeway / Cabhsair 14(2)
And i’m very chuffed to be in the latest (bumper) edition of Causeway / Cabhsair, with three poems: Lines, Northbound, and We’re.
August 2025 – Gutter 32
Delighted to have a new (unseasonably wintery) poem, Drop, in the latest issue of Gutter
31 July 2025 – Project Abeona
I’m back in space with Project Abeona again, this time in the hydrocarbon ice on one on the moons of Neptune, and with sea-nymphs on my mind – Nothing of him that doth fade
https://projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmission-30-nothing-of-him-that
June 2025 – Toasted Cheese 25(2)
Very pleased to have two poems in the current issue of Toasted Cheese Literary Journal – To the young and Without breaking
May 2025 – Artemisia Arts Competition
I’m delighted that a poem of mine, Petrichor, is a runner-up in the 2025 Artemisia Arts Poetry Competition: it and another poem I entered, Sunday Morning, will appear in the competition anthology later this year. Congratulations to all the winners and runners-up?