 "[6] Between 2007 and 2012 he ran poetry workshops at Mill View psychiatric hospital, Hove.In 2008 he gained an NHS Artists' Award to produce an anthology of writing from the workshops (2009) from which he was then commissioned to write his own poetic response to this residency, resulting in his epic work "Captive Dragons / The Shadow Thorns", published in October 2011.His collection "Blaze a Vanishing" and "The Tall Skies" (Waterloo Press, 2013) was funded by an Arts Council Grant for the Arts Award.