Publications

POETRY COLLECTIONS

Be That As It May. Wigtown Festival Company, 2025.

The winner of the 2025 Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize at the Wigtown Book Festival. Copies available from The Wigtown Festival Bookshop. Click on the link below.

Be That As It May

Hommages Sémaphoriques. Editions Sémaphore, Quimperlé, France. 2025

A collection of performance pieces from over the last six years at the Festival Semaphore in Brittany. Each year the festival is an homage to a poet or cultural figure and this a collection of homages to Léo Ferré, Bourvil, Antonin Artaud, Leonard Cohen, the Beat Poets, Bob Dylan, Arthur Rimbaud and Patti Smith. Copies are available from the publisher at 14€ plus 2€ postage. Order form below.

Les chiens continuent à aboyer. on parole, Lodève, France. 2014

Lignes d’encre, lignes de sang. on parole, Lodève, France. 2014

Let’s not talk. on parole, Lodève, France. 2014

Someone and me. on parole, Lodève, France. 2014

NON POETRY

Pam Rex: Painter & Printmaker. University of Leeds, 2008

ANTHOLOGIES

Echoes. Write Out Loud. 2025

Artemesia Arts Poetry Anthology. Mosaique Press, Kenilworth. 2025

The Black River: Death Poems. Nature Culture, Wendell MA. 2024

Kent & Sussex Poetry Society Poetry Folio Nos 75 & 76. K&SPS, Tunbridge Wells. 2022 & 2023.

Ripples. Suffolk Poetry Society, Lavenham. 2022.

Honoring Nature. Human Error, Wendell MA. 2021

Calton Ceilidh. Rymour Books, Perth. 2021

On a Knife Edge. Suffolk Poetry Society, Lavenham. 2021.

Beat Generation. Local Gems, Long Island, New York. 2020

George Crabbe Poetry Competition 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023. Suffolk Poetry Society, Lavenham. 2019-23.

Poets to Come: A Whitman Anthology. Local Gems, Long Island, New York. 2019

Anthologie des Poètes Sémaphoristes 2018, 2019. Editions Maison de la Poésie, Pays de Quimperlé.

When Time and Space Conspire. Leaning Tree, San Antonio TX. 2017

Herrings. Blue Door Press, Aldeburgh. 2017

Austin International Poetry Festival Anthologies 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. Austin Poets Int., Austin TX

Oublier les Routes. Dolmen, Pézenas; France. 2013

JOURNALS

Southward. Summer 2025

Spered Gouez No 30 October 2024

Outcrop Issue 3 2024

The Lowell Review 2022

Wordpeace February 2019

Twelve Rivers Summer 2019, Autumn/Winter 2019

La Volée Nos 9, 10, 2017

MEDIA

Video Anthology of Living Poets. Edited by Reha Yunluel https://youtu.be/1ReZucSqXcs

Le Jardin d’Isis. Hour-long interview by Marie-Agnes Salazhar and reading for Radio FM Plus in Montpellier, France. www.radiofmplus.org/jardin-disis-30-mai-roger-west-poete-et-chanteur/

OTHER

Robin Cairns: Please Don’t Punch The Poets! Amazon Kindle. 2022. Some poems and memories included in this memoir.

FORTHCOMING

Kent & Sussex Poetry Society Folio 2025