Critical work



Academic ⚪




Interviews & Features ☎️



  • Interview: A conversation with Kinbrae and Clare Archibald
  • Feature: Some Letters – a correspondence with Joe Luna
  • Interview: ‘Perhaps I write to remember’ - an interview with Tawnya Renelle
  • Interview: ‘Slippery things’ - an interview with Rosie Roberts
  • Interview: SWAT SIGHT - an interview with Nasim Luczaj
  • Interview: The Reach of a Root - an interview with Laura Tansley and Micaela Maftei
  • Interview: Blissful Tendencies - an interview with Robin Boothroyd
  • Interview: Volatile Warmth - an interview with Pratyusha
  • Digest: October 2018

Essays 🐚



  • Essay: Who Still Dreams of Buffering? Dan Power’s Glitch Parapraxis
  • Essay: ‘I must love my nothingness’: ecologies of wounding in Mai Ivfjäll’s Weep Hole
  • Essay: A Shining Mess: Anthropocene Poetics in Caspar Heinemann’s Novelty Theory
  • Essay: ‘All Woven Feeling - Lyric Transition and Nomadic Exchange in Threads by Sandeep Parmar, Nisha Ramayya and Bhanu Kapil’
  • Essay: King of the Normies
  • Essay: Dogs in Fiction (Canine Crisis)

Reviews 🦪


  • ‘A Listening Skin’: review of five recent pamphlets (The Poetry Review, Vol. 112, No. 4)
  • ‘Dear Carolyn’: review blog of Carolyn Hashimoto’s COW (Letters from Godot)
  • ‘Explosive Nonfictions’: review of Death by Landscape by Elvia Wilk (Nothing Personal)
  • ‘Reality’s Ersatz’: review of Padraig Regan and Caleb Parkin (PN Review)
  • ‘O humble receptacle’: review of Leonie Rushforth and Alison Brackenbury (Poetry London)
  • Anam Creative Launch for (MAP Magazine)
  • ‘Now now is everything’: review of Timothy Donnelly and Jorie Graham (Poetry London)
  • LETTERS FOR/AGAINST WILD INVENTION - reviewing The Wild Book of Invention with Finn Arschavir  in MAP Magazine (part 1) (part 2) (part 3)
  • Revicules: SWATCH by Katy Lewis Hood, Freedom & Prostitution by Cassandra Troyan and Bulbul Calling by Pratyusha (Erotoplasty)
  • Notebook of A. by Lucian Moriyama (Adjacent Pineapple)
  • Gelatin poetics: On Rachael Allen’s Kingdomland and the meatspace of contemporary feminist lyric (Jacket2)
  • The Last Word on Mum, by Pema Monaghan (amberflora)
  • Milk Tooth by Martha Sprackland (The Poetry School)
  • Reads of the Year 2018 (Glasgow Review of Books)
  • Waitress in Fall by Kristín Ómarsdóttir (The Poetry School)
  • The Poetics of Sand: Psammomancy by Brian Lavelle and Mark Valentine (Glasgow Review of Books)
  • Word/World by Marianne Morris (Adjacent Pineapple)
  • Click & Collect by Colin Herd (Zarf)
  • Familiars by Emilia Weber (Zarf)
  • Transatlantic Creative Writing Showcase at CCA, Glasgow (USSO)
  • Review: ‘My god, girlhood’: on Savannah Brown’s Closer Baby Closer
  • Cut: ‘I RESEARCH THE ORIGINS OF THE MODERN ROSE AND DISCOVER’ by Sarala Estruch
  • Interview: ‘It’s pretty utopian!’ A conversation with Marie Buck, Mau Baiocco and Maria Sledmere (part 1, part. 2)
  • Review: Cloud Cover by Greg Thomas
  • Review: Seven Leaf Sermons by Peter Larkin
  • Review: Shia LaBeouf by AK Blakemore 
  • Hot Take: Notes on a Conditional Form, by The 1975 (part 1)
  • Review: Miscellaneous by Julia Rose Lewis 
  • Review: Germ Songs by Will Burns and Jess White
  • Review: PAIN issue 3
  • Review: Luminous and Curious: Try to Be Better anthology, ed. by Sam Buchan-Watts and Lavinia Singer
  • Cut: ‘From March, The Month of Winds’ by Gloria Dawson
  • Cut: ‘Apple in Water’ by Mary Ruefle
  • Review: overlove by Geraldine Snell 
  • Meadows and Lemons: Ecological Enmeshment in Timothy Berrigan’s ‘By Letting Rooms’
  • Review:  Not your minute turns from the blueprint - Body Work, by Tom Betteridge (with Denise Bonetti)
  • Cut: ‘Snow’, by Verity Spott
  • Cut: ‘Therianthrope’ by Jane Hartshorn
  • Review: UV Artefacts - Diffusely Yours, by Kate Garklavs
  • Cut: ‘THE GENESIS OF THE WORLD IS RETOLD THROUGH THE MOVING IMAGE’ by Loll Junggeburth
  • Cut: ‘When Overfull of Pain I’ by Jorie Graham
  • Cut: ‘Blue #1’ by Imogen Cassels
  • Cut: ‘southern gothic’ by AK Blakemore
  • Cut: ‘p//toG’ by Anthony Daly
  • Review: Strange Appetites: Supermarket Poetics in Max Parnell’s And no more being outdoors, And no more rain












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