The Sculpting of Ski Fields appears in A Square Peg in a Round World and was also published in London Grip New Poetry, Summer 2024 at: London Grip New Poetry – Summer 2024 – londongrip.co.uk.

Collections

A Square Peg in a Round World, Black Pear Press, September 2025, A Square Peg in a Round World – Clifford Liles – Black Pear Press

The Thin Veneer, Dempsey & Windle, July 2022, https://www.dempseyandwindle.com/cliffordliles.

Anthologies

A Variation on an Enigma appears in the anthology Myths & Mysteries of HereAbouts, ISBN 978-1-9196040-1-5, Red Earth Arts C.I.C, Summer 2023.

A Carnival of Clouds appears in the anthology The Nature of HereAbouts, ISBN 978-1-9196040-2-2, Red Earth Arts C.I.C, Summer 2024.

Ledbury, appears in the anthology Tribute Poems, ISBN 9798345953075, The Malvern Spoken Word Group, Winter 2024.

Literary Journals or Poetry Magazines

Acumen Literary Journal, ISSN 0964-0304, has published the following poems:

•     The Ramsgate Slipway, Issue 113, September 2025;
•     Last Butterfly in Leipzig, Issue 113, September 2025;
•     Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland, Issue 109, May 2024;
•     A Square Peg in a Round World, Issue 105, January 2023;
•     Greenfire, Issue 102, January 2022 and also as Guest Poem.

Poetry Salzburg Review, ISSN 1561-5871, has published the following poems:

• Dunphy’s Short Cut, Issue 41, Summer 2024;
• Hotel Minos (aka All in an Athens Night) Issue No. 39, Autumn 2022.

Gawain and Et in Terra Pax published in South Poetry magazine, Issue 69, Spring 2024, ISSN 0959-1133.

Burning Bush appeared in Obsessed with Pipework, No.105, February 2024, ISSN 1367-9147.

Dream Catcher, ISSN 1466-9455, has published the following three poems:

• You Gallant Few, Issue 51, Summer 2025;
• The Visitor to the Mountain Refuge, Issue 49, Summer 2024;
• Introduction and Allegro, Issue 47, Summer 2023;
• Terra Incognita, Issue 45, Summer 2022.

The Compulsion To Climb, was published in Orbis Quarterly International Literary Journal, Issue 204, Summer 2023, ISSN 0300-4425.

A Subtle Tell of Stones was published in Orbis Quarterly International Literary Journal, Issue 199, Spring 2022, ISSN 0300-4425.

The Promise of Magic and At the Tumbleweed Diner were published in Orbis Quarterly International Literary Journal, Issue 192, Summer 2020, ISSN 0300-4425.

Medea and The Midnight Border to Morocco to be published in Anthropocene, August 2025: 2 poems by Clifford Liles.

The Cannon’s Mouth Quarterly, Cannon Poets, ISSN 1745-6630, has published:

• Under a Cloudy Sea, Shopping on the Right, and Doodlebug, Issue 70, December 2018;
• Coming Off the Mountain and The Arrow of Time, Issue 71, March 2019;
• On Credenhill, Issue 96, June 2025.

Reach Poetry, ISSN 1461-1112, has published the following poems of Clifford Liles:

• A Checkpoint Missed Near the Guatemalan Border in Issue 249, June 2019;
• Coup d’Etat, Issue 251, August 2019;
• The Old Bookshop, Issue 262, July 2020;
• Grimoire in Issue 264, September 2020;
• In sight of the twin steepled Týn in Issue 269, February 2021;
• Threesome in Issue 271, April 2021;
• Washing Machines in Issue 275, August 2021;
• Acapulco in Issue 277, November 2021;
• Stradivarius, Master Violin Maker of Cremona in Issue 281, January 2022;
• Memory Cages in Issue 287, November 2022;
• Ode To You in Issue 289, December 2022;
• Dissolution in Issue 291, March 2023;
• Congregations in Issue 298, November 2023;
• Tackling Writer’s Block in Issue 305, June 2024;
• The Towers of San Gimignano in Issue 308, October 2024;
• Sarabande in Issue 311, January 2025;
• Out Where The Map Folds in Issue 312, February 2025;
• Planets in Issue 313, March 2025;
• The Compact Disc Shop in Issue 314, April 2025;
• Running The Outback, Issue 317, September 2025.

Jealousy was published in Graffiti, ISSN 2045-4880, Issue 27, December 2021.

Enduring Solitude was published in Writers’ Forum, competition runner-up, Select Publisher Services Ltd., Issue 155, August 2014, ISSN 1467-2529.

The Englydion of Avalon, was published in Dawntreader, Issue 052, Autumn 2020, ISSN 1751-0554.

On-line Magazines

Medea and The Midnight Border to Morocco in Anthropocene Poetry, July 2025, 2 poems by Clifford Liles

The Rainforests of K’Gari, Oktoberfest, and The Quality of Darkness published in Littoral Magazine, Lammas Edition, 1st August 2024, ISSN 2752-3557. Issue 30 located at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mtb8-LcGsI7tM98fXIPhkt0pjiL68IrW/view.

The Sculpting of Ski Fields published in London Grip New Poetry, Summer 2024 at: www.londongrip.co.uk.

La Notte del Redentore  published in London Grip at www.londongrip.co.uk , September 2022,

London Grip New Poetry – Autumn 2022

A Seamstress Considers her Options published in London Grip at www.londongrip.co.uk , March 2020, https://londongrip.co.uk/2020/02/london-grip-new-poetry-spring-2020/.

Poetry Competitions

Desynchronisation was Highly Commended in the Yaffle Prize 2025.

A Soliloquy for Ramsgate, Canterbury Festival Poetry Competition 2015 Longlist, appeared on Facebook, 16/02/2016: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1015790121814999&id=108645832529437

Requiem for a Kayaker, was Runner Up (second place) in the EarlyWorks Press Competition 2020 at:

https://kaygreen.blog/2020/08/27/earlyworks-press-poetry-competition-2020-results/

Doodlebug, Highly Commended, University of Winchester Writers’ Festival Writing Competition 2017.

Odysseus Encounters Circe, Highly Commended, University of Winchester Writers’ Festival Writing Competition 2014.

Ship of Fools and Benighted in ‘Murdering Gully’, was short-listed in the Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year Competition 2013.

Winter Journeys, “People’s Choice” category winner in Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2013.

The Unfinished Work of the Last King of Bavaria, Winner of Local Poet, Sandwich Arts Week Competition 2019.

Isle of the Dead, Second Place, 2018 Sandwich Arts Week National Competition.

Dissolution, Winner of the Canterbury Art in the Underpass poetry competition 2014 and painted on a riverside mural in the Westgate Gardens, Canterbury June 2016.

Enduring Solitude, Runner-up in Issue 155, Writers’ Forum Poetry Competition 2014.

In the Garden of Old French Roses, short listed in SaveAs Writers Poetry Competition 2014.

Jealousy, short-listed in the Sandwich Arts Week National Poetry Competition 2018.

When Dinosaurs Loved Poetry, Commended in Issue 164, Writers’ Forum Poetry Competition June 2015. Shopping on the Right, Writer’s Forum, Commended Issue 153.