Writing CV

Last Updated: Jan 2025

Publications

Buckley, Toby. Milk Snake. Birmingham: The Emma Press, 2022.

"Shaping Staff." HE SHE THEY US: Queer Poems. London: Pan Macmillan, 2024.
“Slurp,” “Shaping Staff,” “Cold Today,” “Bufo,” “Waders,” “Inver,” “Tree Forms as a Mother and Child,” “Oh, It’s You,” “A Field Trip” and “Men Gathering Honey.” Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry. Belfast: The Lifeboat Press, 2021.
“Bufo.” Empty House: Poetry and Prose on the Climate Crisis. Inverin: Doire Press, 2021.

"Elephant Caretaker" and "Primroses with Hatched Egg." Acumen: Issue 111, January 2025.
“Bates.” Banshee: Issue 16, Autumn/Winter 2023.
“Baby’s Rosemary.” Fourteen Poems: Issue 10, April 2023.
“Gay for Moleman” and “I Couldn’t Afford K.K’s Stool in Pocket Camp.” Pretty Cool Poetry Thing’s Animal Crossing Zine, August 2020.
“Inver.” Channel: Issue 1, Autumn 2019.
“Portstewart, 25 March 2018.” Monstrous Regiment Magazine: Issue 2, Volume 1, December 2018.
“Meeting Bobo.” The Writers’ Cafe Magazine: Issue 10, July 2018.
“The Chihuahua.” Dash: Volume 11, Spring 2018.
“How Homeless is Homeless?” The Stinging Fly: Winter 2017/18. The Stinging Fly, Solas Nua Sampler Publication, Summer 2018.
“Nostos” and “[bee emoji].” Firewords: Issue 9, December 2017.
“She-Demon of Phantos.” This Is Not Where I Belong: Issue 19, November 2017.
“Wild Strawberries” and “Arils.” No Offence Zine, Autumn 2017.
“Men Gathering Honey, Araña Cave, Valencia,” “Meliteus,” “Manitoba” and “Melita & Area Pole Shed.” Bee Safe Bee Zine, Autumn 2017.
“Prayer.” Ponder Review: Volume 1, Issue 2, Autumn 2017.
“The Blow-Ins.” The Rose Magazine: Issue 4, July 2017.
“hannah.” HCE Review: Volume I, Issue V, June 2017.
“Adam’s.” Unpredictapple, 2017.
“companion.” The Tangerine: Issue Two, Spring 2017.
“Scrambled Legs.” The Open Ear: Issue Five, Autumn 2016.

“Nickelodeon II”, “radium girls”, “Ulrika’s Cabinet”, “Āfa-Bat” and “Bébé Falls Ill.” Featured poet, Footnote: Issue 3, March 2020.
“entryway” and “Tree Forms as a Mother and Child.” Featured Poet, Poetry Ireland Review: Issue 125, July 2018. Introduction by Eavan Boland.

Fourteen Poems: Author Video, ‘Baby’s Rosemary’, June 2023. Video.
The Seamus Heaney Centre Podcast: S8 Ep6 Queer at Queen’s: Live at the Crescent Arts Centre, Podcast, November 2022. Audio.
The Seamus Heaney Centre Podcast: S8 Ep3 Queer at Queen’s: In Conversation with Toby Buckley, Podcast, November 2022. Audio.
Eastside Arts: Prophets, Makers and Risk Takers: A Showcase of Writing from Northern Ireland, ‘Inver’ and ‘Waders’, March 2022. Video.
Poetry Jukebox: Hour by Hour, 'entryway', November 2018 & May - June 2019. Audio.
RTÉ Radio 1: Arena, ‘How Homeless is Homeless?’, 22/12/2017. Audio.

"Essay: According to Kavanagh." Poetry Ireland Review: Issue 127, April 2019.
“Simple History: the American Civil War.” Author: T. Buckley, Illustrator: Daniel Turner, 2016. ISBN 153366028X, 9781533660282.

Artist Career Enhancement Scheme (ACES) awardee, 2023.
SHORTLIST: North West Words Poetry Competition, 2019.
SECOND PLACE: Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry, 2019.
Poetry Ireland Introductions Series graduate, 2018.
Poetry Ireland Review Featured Poet, 2018.
LONGLIST: Fool for Poetry Award, 2017.
NOMINEE: GALAS Award for Art & Literature, 2017.
SHORTLIST: The Charter Oak Award for Best Historical, 2017.
MA Creative Writing Poetry (Distinction), 2017.
Bursary to attend the John Hewitt Summer School 2017.
Ruth West Award for Poetry 2016/17 (MA scholarship, Queen’s University Belfast).
BA English with Creative Writing (First Class Honours), 2016.

Look North - North Belfast Festival: UNSEEN: Writing in Plain Sight, Belfast 2025.
Look North - North Belfast Festival: Poetry Slam, Belfast 2024.
Belfast Book Festival: Queer Connections, Belfast 2023.
Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Galway 2023.
Ghouls on Film, Belfast 2022.
Mícheál McCann and Friends, Belfast 2022.
Pamphlet Launch: Milk Snake, Zoom 2022.
Talking with Strangers, Mountains to Sea Literary Festival, 2019.
Mairtín Crawford Award Readings, Belfast Book Festival, 2019.
Dublin Fringe Festival, 2018.
Hillsborough Festival of Literature and Ideas, 2018.
Journal Launch: The Open Ear, Belfast 2018.
Poetry Ireland Introductions Series reading, Dublin 2018.
Notes from the Margins, Dublin Book Festival, 2018.
Zine Launch: Unpredictapple, Dublin 2017.
Seamus Heaney Centre MA readings, Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, 2017.
Culture Night Belfast, 2017.

Queer at Queen’s: Live at the Crescent Arts Centre, Outburst Festival, 2022.
(A live podcast recording on writing queerness with fellow panelists Padraig Regan, Mícheál McCann, Toby Buckley, Dawn Watson, and Paul Maddern and chair Hilary McCollum.)
Talking with Strangers, Mountains to Sea Literary Festival, 2019.
(A panel discussion on otherness in Irish poetry with fellow panelists Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi, Helen Hutchinson and Stephen James Smith, and chair Rachael Hegarty.)
Notes from the Margins, Dublin Book Festival, 2018.
(A panel discussion on LGBT poetry in Ireland with fellow panelists Rosamund Taylor and Will St. Leger, and chair Ailbhe Smyth.)

“Nickelodeon II”, “radium girls”, “Ulrika’s Cabinet”, “Āfa-Bat” and “Bébé Falls Ill.” Featured poet, Footnote: Issue 3, March 2020.
“entryway” and “Tree Forms as a Mother and Child.” Featured Poet, Poetry Ireland Review: Issue 125, July 2018. Introduction by Eavan Boland.

Ghouls on Film, 2022: Commission for a set of poems relating to queerness in horror films (performed with Sacha White at Queen’s Film Theatre).

Northern Soul Roadshow 2024 - Reading and discussion with students on a development course run by Fiona O'Rourke through the Irish Writers Centre. With Abby Oliveria.

Poetry with Pride: Poetry reading series run for Belfast Pride. 2017-2018 & 2022-2024.
Belfast Zine Market, 2017 (2 events).