Critical work and Reviews

I absolutely loved writing about building alternate worlds for Pen To Print and Writers & Artists. You can read the article here: https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/advice/how-write-alternate-worlds

I chose a few of my favourite books of magic realism for children over at Sheperd Books. You can read it here

I really enjoyed listing a few of my favourite mythic retellings beyond the Greco-Roman canon for Shepherd books. You can read my recommendations here

I wrote about Covid-19, isolation and young people’s mental health through the idea of the ‘chronotope’ or ‘impossible worlds’ of literature for SYNAPSIS here

A recent exploration of the lyric essay as illness narrative is up on SYNAPSIS here

I also looked at the works of artists with lived experience of illness in the context of the medical gaze at SYNAPSIS here

I really enjoyed this collaborative call-and-response prose piece ‘At the Shoreline’ written by myself and fellow Kinara poets Sarala Estruch and Rushika Wick for the fabulous Poetry Birmingham here

I was honoured to speak with poet Kayo Chingonyi for Bad Form Review on the new anthology he edited, More Fiya, and the importance of developing critical spaces for writers of colour. You can read the interview here

My review of Breast Cancer Inside Out: Bodies, Biographies, Beliefs (Ed. Kimberley Myers) is on The Polyphony

I presented my work on Anne Boyer’s ‘The Undying’ at the Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities Conference in the summer.

I reviewed ‘Arrival at Elsewhere’, a book-length collaborative poem compiled from work written during the first few months of UK lockdown at The Polyphony

Pleased to have a review of Arun Jeetoo’s I Want to Be the One You Think About At Night at Bad Form Review.

It was a real thrill to interview Niven Govinden, a writer I’ve long admired for the same online/print literary journal-which is a fantastic space for writers of colour. You can read it here.