A. Books
Interned at the Food Factory published by Indigo Dreams Publishing in January 2019 after being highly commended in the IDP Pamphlet Competition in 2017
https://www.indigodreams.co.uk/sharon-larkin/4594486683
Indigo Dreams pamphlet competition 2017
B. Inclusion in Prizewinners’ Anthologies
Shortlisted in the Cinnamon Press Debut Poetry Collection Competition 2016, adjudicated by Jan Fortune and Ian Gregson; ten of my poems showcased in the Cinnamon Press Anthology 2017.
Jan Fortune: “The quality of these finalists was so high that the decision was almost impossible. We finally wrestled five very fine submissions down to two …” “The shortlist was outstanding and the other excellent finalists – Sharon Larkin, Mick Evans & Vivienne Tregenza will be featured in an anthology …”
The following 10 poems in the Cinnamon Press anthology (October 2017):
View from the benthos
Under observation
Damsel dancing
Shaggy ink caps
Aquarium
What passes between
Bowerbird
Departure, 1st April
Expanding universe
Fireworks
The anthology can be purchased here:
Long-listed in Cinnamon Press Debut Poetry Collection Competition, November 2012 and medium-listed in the 2013 Cinnamon Press Debut Poetry Collection Prize Competition, Cinnamon Press Debut Poetry Collection Competition adjudicated by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura. Inclusion of three poems from the 2012 Competition Fishing, Shrink and Nightshade in Cinnamon Press May Day 2013 competition prizewinners’ anthology (ed Jan Fortune), published October 2014 Cinnamon Press Debut Poetry Collection Prize 2014
Cinnamon Press Mayday Anthology
The anthology can be purchased here:
https://inpressbooks.co.uk/products/may-day
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First Prize in Silhouette Press competition (judged by Adam Steiner), with publication of the poem Rain Circle in the Circles issue of Here Comes Everyone magazine, April 2014
Here Comes Everyone Circles Edition
Poem Cutting Strings runner-up in the Mothers Milk Books competition 2013 (judge, Angela Topping) and inclusion in the anthology Parenting (ed Teika Bellamy), September 2014
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Mothers Milk Books Parenting Anthology - Poem First Class Anomaly one of the prize-winning poems in Gloucestershire Writers’ Network competition 2006; published in winners’ anthology and read the poem at the Cheltenham Literature Festival that October.
C. Poems in Other Anthologies
Dampier’s Drip, a poem about water in the context of Ascension Island, is included in Well, Dam, compiled and edited by Rebecca Bilkau, published by Beautiful Dragons Press in October 2019
A sequence, The Collector 1-3, included in an anthology, Invisible Zoos edited by me with Simon Williams, published by Eithon Bridge Publications in October 2019.
https://eithonbridge.com/2019/10/12/invisible-zoos/
Poem ‘Fawn, drinking’ included in the For the Silent published by Indigo Dreams Publishing in May 2019.
https://www.indigodreams.co.uk/for-the-silent/4594451393
Several clerihew in The Call of the Clerihew from Smokestack Books, edited by George Szirtes and Andy Jackson, Published 2019
https://smokestack-books.co.uk/book.php?book=165
Poem Bond included in The Poet’s Quest for God, published by Eyewear Publications, 1 July 2016, edited by Fr. Oliver Brennan and Todd Swift
Poem View from the Benthos included in the Zoomorphic anthology Driftfish edited by Susan Richardson and James Roberts, published in December 2016,
Poem Spots in Indigo Dreams Press Heart Shoots anthology (ed Ronnie Goodyer) in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, 2013 – alongside poems by Penelope Shuttle, Moniza Alvi, Pascale Petit and others.
Indigo Dreams Press Heart Shoots Anthology
Inclusion of a poem in ‘All a Cat Can Be’, an anthology of poems for the New Start Cat Rescue in Gloucestershire, published by Eithon Bridge Publications, August 2018
Inclusion of a poem in the Algebra of Owls quarterly anthology, Number 3, March 2017, editor Paul Vaughan
Poem Therianthrope in Clear Poetry anthology 2016, January 2017,
edited by Ben Lanyard
Poem Mismatch in Clear Poetry anthology, December 2015, edited by Ban Banyard
Two sonnets, Arachnophobe and Caught in a Web, in Poems on Spiders, part of the Maligned Species project, published by Fairacre Press, 5 February 2016. Edited by Nadia Kingsley.
Fairacre Press Poems on Spiders
Poem Out in Poems on Stinging Nettles part of the Maligned Species project, published by Fairacre Press, 26 February 2016. Edited by Nadia Kingsley.
Fair Acre Press – Poetry on Stinging Nettles
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D. Poems published in printed magazines
Poem Wood Pigeon in Obsessed with Pipework 73, February 2016
Obsessed with Pipework magazine
Poem Breakout in Prole 29, November 2019, editor Brett Evans
Prole 29 available to purchase here
Poem Packing Heat in Prole 25, April 2018, editor Brett Evans
Poem Girl on a Motorcycle, 1967 in Prole 23, August 2017, editor Brett Evans
Poems Reaching for the Remote and Decisive Action in Prole 22, May 2017, editor Brett Evans
Poem Travel Advisory in Prole 21, December 2016, editor Brett Evans
Poem Trotter in Prole 18, December 2015, editor Brett Evans
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Poem A dim view of austerity in Issue 1 of Laldy from Clochoderick Press, January 2018
Lady issue 1 from Clochoderick Press
Poem Viola Odorata in Silhouette Press/Here Comes Everyone Disgust issue, June 2014
Here Comes Everyone Disgust Edition
Poem Sprung in the Transition edition of Here Comes Everyone/Silhouette Press, September 2016
Poem ‘Sprung’ in Transition issue of Here Comes Everyone
Poem Pet Hate in Indigo Dreams Press Reach Magazine, No. 186 March 2014
Poem Pet Circuit Training in Indigo Dreams Press Reach Magazine, No. No. 188 May 2014
Poem 1024 – Homage to Incubus in Picaroon Poetry #8, May 2017
1024 Homage to Incubus in Picaroon #8
E. Local Publications (Gloucestershire)
Two poems, Losing Face and Other Body Parts and The Fallen Women of Cheltenham in Cheltenham 300 anthology published by Cheltenham Poetry Society with photographs by Sharon Larkin and Roger Turner, to commemorate 300 years of Cheltenham as a Spa Town.
Cheltenham 300 – edited Sharon Larkin; Reviewed by Peter Keeble in South Magazine issue 56. Reviewed in South Magazine.
http://www.southpoetry.org/current-issue-reviews
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Holiday Job, Clearing Out, Blackthorn and Nightshade in Cheltenham Poetry Society anthology “Beyond the Well-Mapped Provinces”, cover design by Abi Ponton, April 2013. Anthology reviewed by South Magazine:
Cheltenham Poetry Society Beyond the Well Mapped Provinces Anthology
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Two poems, Home sick home and Skeins, in Cheltenham Poetry Society anthology Chance Encounters, May 2014
Cheltenham Poetry Society Chance Encounters Anthology
Two poems, Green and Escape Velocity, in Museum of Light, jointly published by Poetry Factory and Creative Photographers in Cheltenham, Yew Tree Press, 2014, plus an exhibition in Cheltenham’s Garden Gallery in September 2014
Creative Photographers in Cheltenham – The Museum of Light
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Poem Mother in the pamphlet Setdown, commemorating the Laurie Lee centenary, Yew Tree Press, September 2014. 
Setdown: Laurie Lee commemorative anthology
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Poem The Spiel in anthology Dear World, poems on the environment and natural world, Foreward by Sir Andrew Motion, Frosted Fire Press, 2015
Write Out Loud blog about Dear World Anthology
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Five Poems – Both Sides of the Valley, Bypassing Paradise, The Pros and Cons of Woolworking, Riggwelter, Madder than a Box of Bugs included in the Wool pamphlet published by Yew Tree Press, edited by Philip Rush – part of a Wool and Water poetry project linked with the exhibition at The Museum in the Park, Stroud, August 2019
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Two poems Cactus Bowl and Taddington, January in Perspectives, the magazine of Cheltenham Arts Council, February – May 2015
Cheltenham Arts Council Perspectives Issue 7
F. Poems recorded, audio/video
Bilingual poem, English and Welsh, entitled Search/Chwiliad included in the Wild Whispers project led by Chaucer Cameron. Film of Chwiliad by Othniel Smith.
https://wildwhispers.blog/the-poems/chwiliad-sharon-larkin-welsh/
https://wildwhispers.blog/608-2/
The audio voice/video recording can be found here: https://vimeo.com/250010457
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Poems Locust and Therianthrope published by Clear Poetry, edited by Ben Banyard, with an audio recording on SoundCloud, 3 October 2016
Locust and Therianthrope on Clear Poetry and SoundCloud
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Poem Women’s Conference included on Radio Wildfire programme in 2008.
G. Poems published on-line and in e-zines
Poem Demophobia published by Helen Ivory in Ink Sweat & Tears on 10 November 2016
Demophobia on Ink Sweat & Tears
Poem Thé avec Imogen et toi published by Claire Walker and Holly Magill on Atrium on 13 March 2018
Thé avec Imogen et toi – at Atrium
Poem On seeing Bredon published by Claire Walker and Holly Magill on Atrium
Poems Locust and Therianthrope published by Ben Banyard, with an audio recording on SoundCloud, at Clear Poetry 3 October 2016
Locust and Therianthrope on Clear Poetry and SoundCloud
Poem Raptor in Algebra of Owls December 2016
Poem Grave in Algebra of Owls January 2017
Poem Lone Wolf 0n Amaryllis (February 2017)
Poem Birds do Mourning Well in issue 3 of Riggwelter, November 2017.
Poem ‘Higher Being’ on Visual Verse,
https://visualverse.org/submissions/higher-being/
Poem ‘L’Anachronism de l’Anarchie’ on Visual Verse
https://visualverse.org/submissions/lanachronisme-de-lanarchie/
Poem ‘Ever Afters’ on Visual Verse
https://visualverse.org/submissions/ever-afters/
Poem ‘Divided by a Common Language’ on Visual Verse, November 2017
Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words
One image, one hour, 50 -500 words.
The picture is the starting point …
Divided by a Common Language on Visual Verse
Poem Under Surveillance on Visual Verse, October 2017
Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words
One image, one hour, 50 -500 words.
The picture is the starting point …
Under Surveillance on Visual Verse
Poem ‘Bandera’ on Visual Verse, September 2017.
Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words
One image, one hour, 50-500 words.
The picture is the starting point …
- Poem Transhumance on the Poems and Pictures website at the Mary Evans Picture Library, London
Transhumance accompanying photograph of the Hafod estate, 1960s Cardiganshire, at The Mary Evans Picture Library, London
Transhumance, Mary Evans Picture Library
- Poem Akin to Déjà Vu accompanying a photograph (picture 10166522, unattributed photograph, early 1930s) on the Poems and Pictures website of the Mary Evans Picture Library,
Poem Akin to Déjà Vu and unattributed photograph
- Poem A Barbaric Primer on Writers Against Prejudice 26 August 2016, edited by Marie Lightman
- Poem Snail on a Razor Blade on The Mouse 23 August 2016
Snail on a Razor Blade at The Open Mouse
- Poem Bread on Spilling Cocoa Over Martin Amis 18 July 2016
- Two poems Bastard Rough and South Quoining in The Poetry Orchard, at Ledbury Poetry Festival 2014 and performed Big at Apple Harvestime event in Much Marcle October 2014
Ledbury Poetry Festival Poetry Orchard
- Two poems, Flesh 1, Flesh 2 at The Stare’s Nest e-zine, 12 November 2014, edited by Judi Sutherland
The Stare’s Nest 12 November 2014
- Poem Pâté d’alouette at The Stare’s Nest e-zine, 17 December 2014, edited by Judi Sutherland
The Stare’s Nest 17 December 2014
- Three poems, The Take Away, Silver Wedding and House Guest at Nutshells and Nuggets e-zine, 6 November 2014
Nutshells and Nuggets Three Poems
- Poem Show on the Fit to Work – Poets against Atos website, 17 June 2013, edited by Daniel Sluman
- 3 poems Mismatch, Summer Evening Sounds, Shaggy Inkcaps in Clear Poetry, 17 December 2015, edited by Ben Banyard
- Poem Bond in Ground, 8 November 2015, edited by by Chris Sewings
- Poem Plan A in Ground, 14 February 2016, edited by by Chris Sewings
- Poem Fire-words, in Ground, 26 June 2016, edited by by Chris Sewings
- Poem Venit Vidit Fugit at Grievous Angel, 8 April 2016, edited by Charles Christian
- Four poems, Autumn colour, Winter fling, Thé avec Imogen et toi and Pareidolia, in Rat’s Ass Review, Love & Ensuing Madness collection, 20 May 2016.
Love and Ensuing Madness; Rat’s Ass Review
- Poem Sunday Roast at I Am Not a Silent Poet, 22 September 2015, edited by Reuben Woolley
I am not a Silent Poet – Poem Sunday Roast
- Poem am pm at I Am Not a Silent Poet, 22 September 2015, edited by Reuben Woolley
I am not a Silent Poet – Poem am pm
- Poem Full Body Protection at I Am Not a Silent Poet, 22 September 2015, edited by Reuben Woolley
I am not a Silent Poet – Poem Full Body Protection
- Poem Protect and Survive at I Am Not a Silent Poet, 23 June 2015, edited by Reuben Woolley
I am not a Silent Poet – Poem Protect and Survive
- Poem Going to Market at Your One Phone Call, 2 October 2015
Your One Phone Call – Poem Going to Market
- Poem Bacon for the Olfactorily Challenged at Your One Phone Call, 16 October 2015
Your One Phone Call – Bacon for the Olfactorily Challenged
- Poem The Jelly Room at Your One Phone Call, 30 October 2015
Your One Phone Call – Poem The Jelly Room
- Poem Mr Gantt Describes the Mission at Your One Phone Call, 13 November 2015
Your One Phone Call – Poem Mr Gantt Describes the Mission
- Poem Bread at Your One Phone Call, 28 November 2015
Your One Phone Call – Poem Bread
- Poem We Treat Animals Better at Writers for Calais Refugees, 23 October 2015, edited by Marie Lightman
- Two poems First Ride and Still in Pod, Issue 3, at The Fat Damsel, 2015, founder and overall editor Jane Burn
TFD – Poems First Ride and Still
- Poem Still also included in Take Ten, Issue 4, at The Fat Damsel, 2015, founder and overall editor Jane Burn
- Poem Shrink in The Fat Damsel, Issue 1, Part 2, 2015, founder and overall editor Jane Burn
- Two poems After the Management Course and First Big Project, in Take 10, Issue 3, at The Fat Damsel, founder and overall editor Jane Burn
TFD Take Ten – Poems After the Management Course and First Big Project
- Poem Cold in the Take 10, Issue 3, at The Fat Damsel. 6 November 2015, founder and overall editor Jane Burn
Photo: Jane Burn
TFD Winter Special Edition – Poem Cold
- Poem Lenses Lose Their Rose Tint in Jolly Pod at The Fat Damsel, late October 2015, founder and overall editor Jane Burn
TFD Jolly Pod – Poem Lenses Lose their Rose Tint
- Poem Shedding in Pod 6 at The Fat Damsel, 21 January 2016, founder and overall editor Jane Burn
H. Prose in print
- Review of “A Life of Guto’r Glyn” by E A Rees, y Lolfa, 9780862439712 in Iota Magazine No 87 pp 109,110, Spring 2010, review commissioned/edited by Kate North
- Article (as Chair of Cheltenham Poetry Society) Poetry – Obsolete or Important you decide in Perspectives magazine, Cheltenham Arts Council, March-May 2013.
I. Miscellaneous
- A ten question interview with the artist; Sharon Larkin – at Your One Phone Call (27 March 2016).
- Meet the New Chair of a Cheltenham Arts Council, article in Cheltenham Arts Council Perspectives magazine October 2016 – February 2017
Perspectives magazine, winter 2016
Winston Plowes in Write out Loud, 1 August 2011, featured Sharon Larkin as the 100th member of Write out Loud, quoting her thus: “I am an unrepentant bridge-builder. What most WOL members must surely share is a love of poetry and conviction of its communicative power – whether the audience reads it or hears it read (or recited, or sung, or chanted, or rapped …) We are fortunate in having a strong poetry fraternity locally and I try to get involved in as many groups as possible, intent on breaking down walls that keep poets in ghettos. Whether performance or page, rhyming or not, lyric or rant, cerebral or from the gut, rooted in history or born of the here and now – good poetry is good poetry.” 100th member, Write Out Loud
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