‘Writing with Plants’,
The London Magazine, June/July 2023
‘Snails’ race to extinction’
Times Literary Supplement, May 2023
‘Is this how the apocalypse will look?’
The Telegraph, April 2023
‘Mutually Inclusive: on the terror
and splendour of human language’
Poetry Review, Vol. 113 No. 3, Spring 2023
‘The Wild Within: Histories of a Landmark Zoo’ (review)
Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism
‘Beasts and super-beasts: a quietly
radical compendium of “weirdo” animals’
Times Literary Supplement, January 2023
‘Sustained sniffing: an olfactory exploration of trees’
Times Literary Supplement,
January 2023
‘Friend, not commodity: changing our approach to water’
Times Literary Supplement, September 2022
‘Wasps for wasps’ sake’
Times Literary Supplement, June 2022
‘To Be Human: on mythology, psychogeography and acts of untethering’
Poetry London, Issue 102, June 2022
‘A series of little deaths: on Penelope Lively’s Metamorphosis‘
The London Magazine, February/March 2022
‘History is gunk: jellies, gloops, glues and other substances essential to life on Earth’
Times Literary Supplement, February 2022
‘Positive/Negative Space: on lamentations, elegies and odes’
Poetry Review, Vol. 111, No. 4, Winter 2021
‘Salt, Sugar, Sweat: The Aesthetics of Danger’
The London Magazine, August / September 2021
‘Subversion and Satire: on humour, melancholia and intertextuality’
Poetry Review, Vol. 111, No. 2, Summer 2021
‘State of Flux: on plurality, authenticity
and reinvention in the age of hyper-connectivity’
Poetry London, Issue 100, Autumn 2021
‘Review: Beethoven Variations by Ruth Padel’
Poetry School, May 2021
‘Review: Magnetic Field by Simon Armitage’
Poetry School, March 2021
‘The Last Demography’ (Short Fiction)
The London Magazine, February/March 2021
‘Conditions of Survival: the intimacy and insistency of two debut collections, Life Without Air and Shine, Darling’
Poetry Review, Vol. 110, No.4, Winter 2020
‘The Entanglements of Consumerism’
The London Magazine, October / November 2020
‘Chaos for what it is: on the works of Andrés Barba’
The London Magazine, June 2020
+ others
KATE ELSPETH SIMPSON 