Sam Phipps is a writer, poet and editor based in Edinburgh. His poems have appeared in Poetry News, the Bridport Prize anthology, Gutter, Poems for Grenfell Tower, Nutmeg, Broken Sleep Books’ Masculinity Anthology and elsewhere.
‘Ode To A Giant Puffball’ was highly commended in the Rialto Nature & Place competition 2024 and ‘The Knowledge’ was highly commended in the same award in 2023.
‘I Hate Helicopters’ was published by Perverse Poetry in November 2025 and ‘Hickory Dickory Duck’ was published by Perverse in December 2024.
His poem ‘Frida Kahlo & Diego Maradona in the Blue House’ was a winner in the Poetry Society members’ prize and ‘The Man Who’ was commended in the Stanza competition.
Sam has read at the Push The Boat Out festival in Edinburgh, as well as various launch events in London and Glasgow.
TOTALLY THAMES and CREATIVE MILE
My show From The Mouth of The Thames, a series of poems and photographs tracing walks from the mouth of the river all the way to the source 215 miles away, opened at Watermans Arts Centre in Brentford, west London, on 30th August 2023 and ran throughout September. A collaboration with the visual artist Clem Routledge, it explored ecology, personal history and memory, drawing on the richness and multiplicity of the Thames.
