Poetry
My debut poetry pamphlet Whichever Music (tall-lighthouse 2011) was a Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice and was shortlisted for a Michael Marks Award. Feral (Bloodaxe Books 2018) was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and a Telegraph poetry book of the month. My latest book Pretenders (Bloodaxe 2025) is a multi-voice exploration of imposter feelings and ‘imposter syndrome’.
My poems have been shortlisted for The Moth International Poetry Prize, The Basil Bunting Prize and the Mslexia Poetry Prize, and published widely in magazines and anthologies. I’ve received three writing grants from Arts Council England.
Praise for Feral
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'Feral is musical, joyously weird, and filled with moments of pure pleasure.'
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph
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'To read Feral for a while is to find it bamboozling and beautiful, to want to read it for longer. Once that's done, the only response is to consider it a masterpiece, and to feel that everyone who cares about language should read it.'
Jonathan Edwards, Poetry Wales
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'Intricate, vital-tender, dazzling work — Potts’ poetry sings even as it bares its teeth.'
Eley Williams
Poems Online
‘Past Tense’ in Poetry By Heart’s 14+ Timeline Anthology
‘A Telephone Conversation with my Sister (Footnotes)’ at Poetry Ireland (video)
‘Catalogue of Strange Fish’ at The Poetry Foundation