My poetry engages with my ecocritical research, exploring ecoanxiety and solastalgia through ecopoetics and geopoetics. I am particularly drawn to the forms of haiku and haibun, which allow me to investigate the intersections between mindfulness and the natural world: only by taking the time to observe and integrate with my environment can I begin to unpack my complex and often repressed relationship to it.
As Researcher-in-Residence for the British Haiku Society 2022, I produced the archival research paper Twisting Point: the evolution of haiku in the climate crisis. I presented it as Keynote at the Society’s Winter Gathering 2022, and it was later reprinted in Haiku NewZ, a publication of the New Zealand Poetry Society (NZPS). My reflections on climate change and haiku have appeared in The Conversation, the UK National Association for Environmental Education (NAEE) Blog, the University of Bristol’s Cabot Institute for the Environment Blog, and The Wee Sparrow Poetry Podcast, amongst others.
Alongside publishing my own haiku, I’m passionate about teaching the form to others, and have worked with Wagamama to create engaging haiku competition spaces. I’m listed on the Haiku Foundation Registry, and am a member of the British Haiku Society. If you would like to discuss interviews of workshops, please get in touch.
PUBLICATIONS
‘Twisting point: the evolution of haiku in the climate crisis’ | The British Haiku Society, Spring 2023
Single haiku | Temple: British Haiku Society Anthology, December 2021
Single Haiku | Presence #67, September 2020
Runner up in the Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar 2021 Competition | April 2020
Shortlisted for the Museum of Haiku Literature Award 2019 | December 2019
Single haiku | Blithe Spirit 29.3, August 2019
Single haiku | Frogpond 41.3, January 2019
Two haiku | Blithe Spirit, December 2018
Single haiku | Wild: British Haiku Society Anthology, November 2018
Three haiku | Blithe Spirit, August 2018