Aidan Semmens is the author of six volumes of poetry – A Stone Dog (Shearsman Books 2011), The Book of Isaac (Free Verse / Parlor Press 2013), Uncertain Measures (Shearsman 2014), Life Has Become More Cheerful (Shearsman 2017), There Will Be Singing (Shearsman 2020) and The Jazz Age (Salt 2022). He also founded and edited the online poetry magazine Molly Bloom, and before moving to Orkney edited an anthology of Suffolk poetry, By the North Sea (Shearsman 2013). He is widely published in poetry magazines and has given many readings of his work, including at festivals in Berlin, Aldeburgh and Dorset.
Professionally, he has been a sportswriter, a news columnist, and a sub-editor for newspapers including The Independent, the i, The Daily Mirror, and for many years the News of the World, where he specialised in sport. He has also written for regional magazines on subjects ranging from medieval church art and architecture to photography, travel and green issues.
His photos have appeared sporadically in a range of newspapers, magazines and academic books.

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