Books
Cairn Almanac. Hesterglock Press, Bristol. (2017).
“In these poems, with their echoes of Langland, Spenser and Milton, a laconic pastoral is fired with a lyric injunction: let the urban macro-wave find its bubble overlay skittishly reproducing an organic micro-sheaf. Let there be improbable gleanings of the faux-rural, even via cursory zones where the primal threads a maze of its own repetitions: deviant frames may have forgotten how not to go on declaring the seasons.”
Peter Larkin
“Questioning time from the “Knowledge Quarter”: how we measure it, how we (don’t) believe in the seasons, how we live with weather in the era of climate change. Phrases flicker meanings, seen through an ecological lens, through energy politics, seen from a bicycle, on a screen, in their patchy pasts. “Forced Fingers” employs a sparser language, entering the Georgic realm of agricultural economics in an uncanny blurring of lyricism and harsh realism, with words cut up brutally by the line-breaks.”
Harriet Tarlo
Mystics. Girasol Press, London (2014).
Phonetic “nonsense” translations of the seventeenth-century Spanish mystic poets San Juan de la Cruz, Santa Teresa de Ávila and Fray Luis de León. These poets sought to renew the Catholic Church and the language it permitted by expressing a more directly visceral communion with Christ combined with a radical emphasis on holy poverty. Mystics translates their sacred non-sense into a garbled English that approximates the holy intensity and political charge of their verse on the level of sound rather than sense. Perhaps the “porque,” the “because,” is a “poor key error,” a typing mistake that scrambles the message, preventing the efficient and properly mediated communication of meaning.
Magazines & Anthologies
From Off/Set, Chant de la Sirene Climate & Poetics special issue (2024).
From Off/Set, Anthropocene (2024).
“City Silo City, What Does Not,” Works & Days, Vol. 3 (Winter 2023).
“The Emptying” / “El vaciamiento,” Pamenar Magazine, trans. Leire Barrera (2023).
“Skinscapes” / “Pielpaisajes,” Revista Kokoro, trans. Noèlia Díaz Vicedo (2022).
“Gauge Weights,” Ludd Gang #6 (2022).
“Guerrilla Workfare,” Protean Magazine (2021).
“Tzar of Everything,” Cambridge Literary Review Issue 13: Resistance (2021).
“What Happens, Feb/Mar 2020,” Folder (2021), guest ed. MC Hyland.
“20 Oct 18.” Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, Poetics of the More-than-human World (2020). Ed. Mary Newell, Bernard Quetchenbach and Sarah Nolan.
“Nowwhere Elsehere,” Tenebrae #4 (2020).
“Five a Week,” Blackbox Manifold #21(2018).
“Annotatio Pastoral,” The World Speaking Back…To Denise Riley. Ed. Ágnes Lehóczky and Zoë Skoulding (Boiler House Press, 2018).
“[Thirsty by seven thirty again but not beyond measure],” Datableed #9 (2018).
“[Those were a series of non-replicable conditions],” Cumulus #1 (2018).
“[Yank the palanca here we are],” Zarf #8 (2017).
“[Hard to know where to feel now].” Plumwood Mountain, Vol. 4, No. 1, guest ed. Harriet Tarlo (2017).
From “Summer Scrapbook (pts. 2 & 3)” and “Sheffield Shanty,” Colorado Review 43.3 (2016).
From Colin Clout in the Knowledge Quarter: a Shepherd’s Calendar, E-ratio # 22 (2016).
“Peak Time,” Epizootics! #1 (2015).
From Forced Fingers, The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada, 13: 2 (2015).
From Forced Fingers, The Clearing (2014).
Collaboration & Curation
With David Walker Barker, “R/S Res. and Searching for Jossie.” Ecozona: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment.“ Towards an Ecopoetics of Randomness and Design” special issue, ed. Franca Anik Bellarsi and Judith Rauscher (2019).
With David Walker Barker, Searching for Jossie.Multi-media work. Collaboration for the exhibition In the Open, Sheffield Institute of Arts, Sheffield Hallam University (September 2017).
With Abi Goodman, Path & Present: A Poetics of Trespass. Multi-media work. Collaboration for the exhibition Trespass!, Sheffield Institute of Arts (December 2018).
With Seni Seneviratne, Lees Moor Wood. Diisonance: Prote(x)st Art & Collaborative Experimental Poetry. Performance at Bank Street Arts (June 2017).
With Leire-Barrera Medrano, “Hotair.” Performance at Enemies North X North West Poetry Tour. Bank Street Arts Sheffield (February 2017).
Enclosure, LEAF (Little Ecological Arts Festival). Sydenham Common (May 2013).
