He studied poetry for three years with the Open College of the Arts before obtaining an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2008. His work has appeared in a number of magazines including The North, Envoi, The Interpreter’s House, Prole and Obsessed with Pipework, as well as a few anthologies (most recently Heavenly Bodies). In 2011 and 2012 his entries to the National Poetry Competition reached the longlist.