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Published poems

Published Poetry
(In chronological order)
Maggie's Poem

Between the Lines (Nottingham: Telltale Writers, 2015).

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BBC Radio Nottingham’s Mark Dennison Show.

"Maggie's Poem, by Jo, was particularly poignant" - Anna Marshall, Left Lion Magazine.

Loss

First published: Between the Lines (Nottingham: Telltale Writers, 2015).

 

Hey!Whatsonnotts?

 

Left Lion Magazine, Issue 77, April 2016.

Hope

Monster Anthology (Nottingham: Launderette Books, 2016).

Devil and the Deep

Monster Anthology (Nottingham: Launderette Books, 2016).

Relaxation
Yoga
Kids' Days
Expressive Art

Maggie's Centres website, 2017.

The Kitchen

First published: Maggie’s Centres website.

Missing Pieces (Nottingham: Tell Tale Writers, 2017). 

Broadcast: BBC Radio Nottingham, May 2017.

Fight or Flight

Missing Pieces (Nottingham: Tell Tale Writers, 2017).

Day 10

Missing Pieces (Nottingham: Tell Tale Writers, 2017).

Twelve Months of Cancer

Our Beating Heart: NHS70 (Liverpool: erbacce-press, 2018).

Flight of Fancy

Broadcast: BBC Radio Nottingham's Alan Clifford Show on 30th April 2018 (poem starts at 03:29:25).

Published: Crossroads Anthology (Nottingham: Launderette Books, 2018).

Recovery
Asking for it
Lost in translation
Hopo's
The Fawn and the Flea
Untitled
Single Ticket
Progress
Gran
January
PTSD
Flight of fancy
Anon.
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erbacce Poetry Journal (issue 61)

In 2019 Jo was selected, alongside the winner and three runners-up, from nearly 8,000 entrants to be one of four Featured Poets, in the erbacce Prize. An interview and selection of her poems were published in the erbacce Poetry Journal, in April 2020.

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Individual copies of this journal, as well as regular subscriptions, can be ordered from the erbacce website.

Day-blink

My Three Words online gallery, an IOU project commissioned by Junction, Goole

Day-blink was written as a poetry commission for My Three Words; a project inspired by locations in Goole, as they are described on the What Three Words app. Jo's poem was instigated by the three words: blink.hometown.opens, which is located at the entrance to Goole train station - April 2021.
Neighbourhood watch
Single ticket
My desmond
Moving meditation

Gran
Too young for this
A dream while social distancing

PTSD
Flight of fancy
Twelve months of cancer
Human nature
Chronic
Results
Stay local


How not to multitask, Jo Weston (Wild Pressed Books, Hull, 2021)
Welcome to Sherwood

Writing Notts 2021: An anthology of Nottinghamshire poetry (Silly Goose Press, London, 2021

Distributed around Nottingham including Five Leaves independent bookshop. 
Never prank your prey

Available to read on Dirigible Balloon, a searchable webzine of poetry for children
2024.

 
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