Critical work
Academic ⚪
- Review: Jon Hegglund and John McIntyre (eds) Modernism and the Anthropocene: Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature (Green Letters)
- I, Cloud: Staging Atmospheric Imaginaries in Anthropocene Lyric (Moveable Type)
- “Just to distract you like the inside”: a correspondence wrapped up in Bernadette Mayer’s poetry - with Colin Herd (post45)
- Hypercritique: A Sequence of Dreams for the Anthropocene (Coils of the Serpent)
- Conference Report: Beastly Modernisms 2019 (British Society for Literature and Science)
- Allowing one’s metaphors to mix’: Performances and Perspectives at the Peter Manson Symposium (The Journal for Innovative British and Irish Poetry)
- Review: Nad Haq (ed.) RAVE: Rave and Its Influences on Art and Culture
(The Kelvingrove Review) - Conference Report: Transatlantic Symposium @ Glasgow Women’s Library (USSO)
Essays 🐚
- Stay Weird Infinity Girlhood - on Maya Man’s read it and weep (Permeable Barrier)
- ‘kissing / configuration’: Notes on Eleanor Perry’s Unspeakable Patterns of the House (Blackbox Manifold)
- On Foam (Futch Press)
- Cloud Shifts (BlueHouse Journal)
- Tangents: letters on Etel Adnan - a correspondence with Katy Lewis Hood in MAP Magazine (part 1) (part 2) (part 3)
- The Aura of Plasma Around the Sun (-algia)
- Afloat-ness Preamble on ‘Flotsam’ (Afloat)
- Estranging Natures: Photography and the Anthropocene (NOTES)
- Cybergoth Archaeology: The Seductive Datacombs of OPN’s Age Of (Burning House Press)
- Meadows are strangely multifarious things (British Council)
- 21st June (essay daily)
- Guest Blog: But There is No Land Near the End (Creative Carbon Scotland)
- Liminal Labour: A Survival Narrative for Servers (Do Not Make The)
- Elegiac Light: On Dark Pastoral, The Poetics of Dusk (L’Éphémère Review)
- Love Letter from the Anthropocene, Lime Tree and Isthmus - three essays (Numéro Cinq)
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)
SPAM ♻️
Interviews & Features
Reviews & Cuts
Essays
- 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
Reviews & Cuts
- 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
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)