Since the early 00s Alan has had poems published in many anthologies, such as those listed below...

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The Fruits of Starmer's Labour, Bread & Roses Poetry Award Anthology, Culture Matters, 2023

Dungheap Cockerel, Culture Matters, 2023 (ed. Rip Bulkeley)

The Shouting Tories, Bread & Roses Poetry Award Anthology, Culture Matters, 2022

Poems for the Shelley Memorial Poetry Prize 2022 - Shelley Memorial Project, 2022

Home Boys Home - Writers Against Homelessness, Ballyer Press, 2022 (ed Declan Geraghty

& John Finnan)

A Fish Rots From The Head – A Poetic and Political Wake, Culture Matters, 2022 (ed Rip Bulkeley)

Smokestack Lightning! Smokestack Books, 2021 (ed Andy Croft)

Cry of the Poor – An anthology of radical writing about poverty, Culture Matters, 2021 (ed Fran Lock)

The Brown Envelope Book – Poetry and prose on experiences of unemployment, the benefits system, disability and work capability assessments, Caparison/ Culture Matters, 2021 (ed)

Handbook for 2021, Bread & Roses Poetry Award Anthology, Culture Matters, 2020

Release a Rage of Red, Bread & Roses Poetry Award Anthology, Culture Matters, 2019

New River Press Yearbook 2019, New River Press, 2019

We Will Be Free!! Bread & Roses Poetry Award Anthology, Culture Matters, 2018

Ravaged Wonderful Earth – A Collection for David Kessel, Outsider Poets, 2013

Poems for Freedom, Freedom Books, 2013

Fit To Work: Poets Against Atos, 2013

The Robin Hood Book – Verse Versus Austerity, Caparison, 2012 (ed)

Soul Feathers – Poems in support of the Macmillan Cancer Trust, Indigo Dreams, 2011

Emergency Verse – Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State, Caparison, 2011 (ed)

The Night Shift, Five Leaves Publications, 2010

The Reiver’s Stone, Ettrick Forest Press, 2010

Orphans of Albion, Sixties /Survivors’ Press, 2008/10

The Overdose, Sixties Press, 2007

The Real Survivors’ Anthology, Sixties Press, 2007

Beyond Stigma, Sixties Press, 2006

MEAN - New Writing, The South, 2003

First Edition – Don’t Think of Tigers, The Do Not Press, 2001

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