Along with the editorial board, I help to select poems for publication and oversee the editorial direction of the magazine. I am also the guardian of our beautiful Gmail inbox, and as such act as Boundby’s chief email correspondent. Send your enquiries (and poems) my way!

As of late, it has been rewarding to read work by poets who have a really strong sense of form, their form. The word style comes to mind. I love reading poems which reek of the poet’s voice and rhythm, and are anchored by a consistent style, as if their work abides by (and knowingly breaks) laws which apply to themselves and themselves only: fluency!, but in a language of their own design.

I have never been big on (or very good at) free writing. I like parameters and constraints, research, study, and interrogation.

My advice for writing: set yourself limitations, whether that be form or subject or grammar or punctuation, whatever. Understand these internal limitations and the external ones that we might be more helpless to, and then push up against them, test them with your poetry.

My advice for the poetry business: I’m still working on it.