Poetry

Excerpt:
“An extra day of winter
to clear away with the spring-tine rake —
an extra day, together, to wait”

Composed immediately following the 2019 UK general election. The poem is set on leap day 2020 and imagines the transition from hibernation to hope, after a bleak winter.

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A series of three visual-led poems created for the Design Museum’s shop to coincide with the Moving to Mars exhibition — an immersive experience exploring the Martian landscape and rethinking the design of daily life.

Made in collaboration with artist Lee Shearman, each of the three books — Arrive & Explore, Survive & Expand and Thrive & Exploit — focuses on a different stage of potential relocation to the red planet. Produced as handmade miniature artists’ books by Micro Library Books.

Excerpt:
“Your outstretched arms: a coast
imperfectly known,
a shoreline unsurveyed”

A visual-led poem about the beginning of a relationship. The text incorporates captions from Symbols and Abbreviations used on UK Admiralty Charts from the MoD’s Hydrographic Dept.

Fathom: a unit of length equal to six feet, in reference to the depth of water. From the Old English ‘fæthm’, the original sense was ‘something that embraces’; hence the measurement is based on the span of the outstretched arms from fingertip to fingertip.

A collaboration with Micro Library Books.

Excerpt:
“No-to-low risk of: coral, mangroves, glaciers, lava flows”

A companion to Fathoms, this poem features elements from the same admiralty chart in a poem about seeking drama in safety. Neap Tide: the tide just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when the difference between high and low tide is at its smallest.

Made in collaboration with artist Lee Shearman. Produced as a handmade miniature book by Micro Library Books.