Her plaudits include the Charles Causley Prize, the Manchester Cathedral Prize and she has twice been longlisted for the National Poetry Prize. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and 6 Music Live, and as the flagship poem in a TV advertising campaign for the Nationwide building society. She appears in anthologies of bird poetry, poetry on popular culture and the Penguin anthology, The Poetry of Sex. Her latest collection Kith (Nine Arches Press, 2015) is described by broadcaster Stuart Maconie as "witty, sexy and deft".