Writer-in-Residence at Typewronger Books
December 2024 - May 2025
My residency is in partnership with both Typewronger Books and the Lavender Menace Archive, two independent creative community organisations that are making a huge different to Edinburgh’s literary sector.
Inspired by riso - the art form known for its quirks, vivid inks, DIY history and ‘perfect imperfections’ in print runs - I will create original poems in response to the Lavender Menace archive’s fragmentary, ephemeral and ‘imperfect’ material.
A selection of that work will be published in a bespoke riso booklet,
‘perfect imperfections,’ printed and sold by Typewronger in summer 2025.
Project Mentor, Eff-able Anthology
eff-able is conceived and run by George Parker and JP Seabright, and funded by a National Lottery Project Grant from Arts Council England.
The project aims to shine a spotlight on the lives and experiences of queer disabled people in the field of sexual play, desire, and sensuality from a positive perspective.
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Re·creation: A Queer Poetry Anthology
Re·creation, inspired by the Audre Lorde poem of the same name, is a project offering publication, workshops, feedback, and mentorship to queer poets in the UK. The title has its roots in play, refreshment, recovery, restoration, invigoration, and creating, all of which are long overdue in a Covid-affected world, particularly for those in the LGBTQIA+ community.
Headliner poets include:
Mary Jean Chan, Andrew McMillan, Dean Atta,
Harry Josephine Giles, Nat Raha, Jay Gao,
Christopher Whyte, Joelle Taylor, and Patience Agbabi.
‘An Octagonal Mirror,’ generously lent to the project by Benny Nemer.
Their ‘Intimate Confederacy’
After my MLitt dissertation, I wrote on my research for the Times Literary Supplement, looking back at the WWI poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen: ‘You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.’
Louis MacNeice & Ireland
Following my PhD thesis, and the discovery of a little-known play by MacNeice archived in the New York Public Library, I shared a commentary on his work and life as an Irish emigrant in London at the start of World War Two.