WRITING

Poetry, essays, research and publications.

New poems and essays published regularly on Origami Chicken.

Academic presentations

“The Matter with Poetry: Surrealist Poetry Writing as an Alchemical Practice” (2023) and “Surreal Poetry: The Sound of the Soul” (2024) at the international transdisciplinary conference SURREALISM AND ARTS-BASED RESEARCH: BRIDGING THE IMAGINATION AND REALITY DIVIDE - London Arts-Based Research Centre

“Autopsychography as the Alchemical Opus” (2024) at the international transdisciplinary conference ALCHEMY CONFERENCE 2024: EXPLORING METAPHORICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND ARTS-BASED RESEARCH - London Arts-Based Research Centre at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford

“Surreal Poetry Writing as Alchemical Transformation: a phenomenological account of practice” (2025) at international phenomenology conference FOR LOVE OF ART - Centre for Phenomenology, University of Johannesburg

“Self as Surreal: Oddity as the Art of Selfing” (2025) at the international transdisciplinary conference STRANGENESS AND ODDITY THROUGH ARTS-BASED RESEARCH - London Arts-Based Research Centre

Upcoming

July 2026 - “Cut, Collide, Become: Surrealist Games as a Method for Encountering the Social Dimensions of Doctoral Research” at Transart Institute: Becoming Social

September 2026 - Recentring Hope and Humanity in an Age of Threat and Division, Interdisciplinary Research Network Conference

In progress

PhD thesis — Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. Expected completion October 2027.