Critical work

Academic ⚪

• Super Lyrical Sunshine: Playing Solar Imaginaries in Contemporary Poetics (Journal for Innovative British and Irish Poetry)
• 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)
  

• Feature: The Ballad of the SPAM Café: An Ars Poetica
• Feature: Deep Cuts 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

• 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

• 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

• 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)