An amalgamation. Part poet, part researcher. A splash of editor with a glug of educator.
Not always held in equal measure, and still a work in progress, my background blends surrealism, post-Jungian depth psychology and alchemical imagery. Working at the threshold between disciplines means it is often difficult to find a traditional home for your work. Because I wanted to create spaces where these ideas could collide collaboratively, I set up The Unsayable and The Cabinet - independent, collaborative rooms built for creatives, researchers, and anyone driven by an unorthodox curiosity who simply wants to navigate these realms.
This same commitment to boundary-defying inquiry led me to found Vesica Press, an independent literary press for writing and research that refuses easy categories. As a published poet and a doctoral researcher studying depth psychological frameworks, my practice mostly means following strange questions and finding stranger answers.
Based in the North of England. Working at odd hours. Practice arrives before the understanding. Which is either the problem or the point.