2026 – Don’t Go Extinct – a jazz cantata for young people about climate change with music by Bob Chilcott
Commissioned by Budleigh Music Festival in collaboration with Devon Education Hub
Winner Commissioning Award at the Making Music Awards 2026
2023 – Harry Birthday To Ya – lyrics for music by Bob Chilcott
Performed by the Sixteen at the birthday celebrations of their founder, Harry Christophers
2016 – Totally Fluxed – lyrics for music by Stuart Matthew Price
Performed by a big scary Jack in the Box, just when you least expected it.
For Chambers of Flavour V.2, an adventure by Gingerline
2014 – Downstream Technology song for BP – text set to the music of The Major-General’s Song by WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
Performed by Kit Hesketh-Harvey, produced and arranged by Barnaby Robson
2014 – Don’t Be Afraid – text for an Easter anthem for music by Joanne Casey
2011 – A Light in the Darkness – text for a Christmas anthem for music by Joanne Casey
2009 – Bel Canto – book for a musical revue, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
2009 – We Can Always Move – poem for the Early Music Experiment
2008 – The Night Knight – libretto for a madrigal comedy with music by Scott Gendel
Commissioned by the University of Madison-Wisconsin
2007 – Poem Celebrating the 21 st birthday of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Performed by Simon Callow at the Royal Festival Hall
2007 – Cantari Dignus – text for music by John Bate
Commissioned by Kingston Festival of the Voice, first performed in Kingston Parish Church by the Thames Philharmonic Choir