jadecuttle

🎙BBC New Gen Thinker—Faber book forthcoming
📚Observer poetry critic; ex-Commissioning Editor @TheTimes
⚔️Viking/detectorist/mudlark
🎓Poetry PhD Cambridge

[jadecuttle @JadeCuttle]

I'm presenting @BBCRadio3's Sunday Feature from the fens—with a squelch. Interviewing Rob Macfarlane & @carolinedavison, we don our brown-tinted spectacles to show how poets, like Vaughan Williams, see flatness as somewhere fertile for creativity to land https://t.co/z8Xt2eBuPy

[jadecuttle @JadeCuttle]

My @ObsNewReview poetry picks are Karl O'Hanlon's Herron’s Dream Diary @ShearsmanBooks—some say surrealism has had its moment but this wildly imaginative debut proves otherwise—& Christopher Reid's slow yet striking Ordinary Morning Sunlight @FaberBooks☀️https://t.co/nVUounuLrZ

[jadecuttle @JadeCuttle]

@BBCRadio4 @FaberBooks @tds153 @R4TheVerb When the cuneiform was rediscovered in 1872, the British Museum curator was so excited he stripped off his clothes—shouting he was the first person "after more than two thousand years of oblivion" to read it 👉🏽 With Tom Sutcliffe & Trevor Cox on BBC Sounds https://t.co/54yUwRNwVq

[jadecuttle @JadeCuttle]

On @BBCRadio4 with Simon Armitage discussing his new Gilgamesh & comparably muddy origins behind my @FaberBooks book—ft cuneiform I catalogued & curated as inaugural writer-in-residence at London’s new Museum of Writing, 100,000 artefacts on show✨ @tds153
https://t.co/rByNkq2ptz

[jadecuttle @JadeCuttle]

Enjoyed reading my poetry & discussing historical reenacting—real-life time-travel—on @BBCRadio4’s What Did the Normans Ever Do for Us?📜✨⚔️Thanks to fellow contributors Kate Mosse, @alexburghart, @LeviRoach, @ClerkofOxford & @murielzagha👏🏽On @bbcsounds 📻https://t.co/8yzUm9Awk0

[The Observer New Review @ObsNewReview]

John Ironmonger: ‘I have a profound love for chimpanzees’

The zoologist turned author on the magic and horrors of growing up in Kenya, holding trophy hunters to account, and being big in Germany

✍️ @JadeCuttle
https://t.co/dEL56jrA81

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

@jwironmonger: "I’d always loved writing, but for years it was just a hobby."

Read the full interview as @JadeCuttle speaks to the zoologist turned author on the magic and horrors of growing up in Kenya, holding trophy hunters to account, and being big in Germany.

https://t.co/g9ZEcz1fRB

[jadecuttle @JadeCuttle]

In my @ObserverUK column for best poetry books of July I pick Holly Pester's Cafés (@FitzcarraldoEds), one of the most fun books I’ve read all year, & @HelenMort's thoughtful reconsideration of the maligned stepmother archetype @ChattoBooks✨@ObsNewReview https://t.co/EwZIxyEsHi

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s novel of human violence and natural wonder

The poet’s intricate debut, set during the Kenyan Mau Mau uprising, has nature’s beauty at its core

✍️ @JadeCuttle
https://t.co/RAu135bpVY

[The Observer New Review @ObsNewReview]

Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s novel of human violence and natural wonder

The poet’s intricate debut, set during the Kenyan Mau Mau uprising, has nature’s beauty at its core, writes @JadeCuttle
https://t.co/S0nLqAwvgd

[jadecuttle @JadeCuttle]

For my @ObserverUK June column I choose Kim Moore on motherhood—"Sometimes we're nowhere to be found or else we stand so close you only see a great expanse of skin, a slow unblinking eye"—& @johndchallis on fatherhood👏🏽@ObsNewReview @CORSAIR @BloodaxeBooks https://t.co/3h1DYRMr4J

[John Challis @johndchallis]

Thanks so much to @JadeCuttle for this wonderful review of The Green Parcel in today’s @ObsNewReview, alongside Kim Moore’s The House of Broken Things

The Green Parcel is out later in June, but advance copies are available directly from @BloodaxeBooks

https://t.co/Dnxmdx1lKA

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

“I was excited by the opportunity to unleash [the objects] from their cage,” says @JadeCuttle

Now on display at the Museum of Writing @SenateHouseLib is a huge private collection of writing-related ephemera spanning more than 5,000 years
https://t.co/wwrsqX5R6h

[jadecuttle @JadeCuttle]

It's 100 years since Virginia Woolf wrote On Being Il. As presenter @KirstyWark & I discuss her legacy on @BBCRadio4 @BBCFrontRow I reach for medicine of my own—a snuff jar of soil—read my muddy sonnet (soilnet @FaberBooks)& announce my @metoffice collab🌤 https://t.co/meoZ4Ag00r

[ALISON BRACKENBURY @ABRACKENBURY]

Also in Poetry Review @PoetrySociety. @JadeCuttle writes evocatively of her passion for soil, & of 'the bold & beating heart of 'Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority'.

[Bloodaxe Books @BloodaxeBooks]

Jennifer Lee Tsai's first full-length poetry book Melete is reviewed in @ObserverUK of 3 May. With thanks to @JadeCuttle for featuring Melete as a Poetry Book of the Month.

[jadecuttle @JadeCuttle]

Must poets always be so serious, I ask in @ObserverUK? Might we “shed majesty, for a moment”—query the “role”? As balloons turn sentient & aliens steal jobs, fun gains fourth-person presence in @BetaRish's delightfully surreal Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak🌸https://t.co/SfEnlFTWQD

[jadecuttle @JadeCuttle]

Unsafe is not a peaceful read—it sounds blaring sirens & squealing balloons that snag in hedges. Still I pick this brave & unsettling title by @KMcCarthyWoolf for my @ObserverUK February book column reflecting on Nature Matters @FaberBooks @BloomsburyBooks https://t.co/43mLmLtJXH

[Boris Dralyuk @BorisDralyuk]

Thd @ObserverUK’s @JadeCuttle digs up some of the finest lines in @MrRavoon’s “Dirt Rich,” one of the finest collections I’ve read in a long while, and identifies what makes these often bleakly funny poems, at bottom, so unexpectedly uplifting. https://t.co/FBk7egEN9b

[Josephine Balmer @jobalmer]

Very thrilled by this lovely review of my Selected Poems from @ShearsmanBooks in today’s The Observer @ObsNewReview by the incredibly thoughtful @JadeCuttle.

https://t.co/yMQkaj6Kwq