In this episode, Claire chats to writer Dr Jasmin Kirkbride about her fantastic paper, Twisting Point: the evolution of haiku in the climate crisis. You can read the full paper here.
Dr Jasmin Kirkbride is an author and academic. Her eco-poetry has appeared in places including Frogpond, Blithe Spirit, and Presence, and she has been shortlisted for the Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar 2021 Competition and the Museum of Haiku Literature Award 2019. She was the 2022 Researcher-in-Residence for the British Haiku Society, producing the archival research paper Twisting Point: the evolution of haiku in the climate crisis, which was presented at the Society’s Winter Gathering 2022, and was reprinted in the the New Zealand Poetry Society (NZPS) journal Haiku NewZ. She's also published short fiction, nonfiction, and peer-reviewed papers, and is co-editor of the upcoming Green Letters Special Edition 'Epochs, Ages, and Cycles: Time and the Environment’. By day, Jasmin is a Lecturer at City, University of London, and lives in Norfolk, UK.
Find out more about Jasmin´s work on her website www.jasminkirkbride.com and you can follow her on Instagram @jasminkirkbride
You can read the article we discussed from The Guardian here.
Jasmin chose Emily Dickinson´s beautiful Hope is the thing with feathers as one of her favourite poems by a well-known poet. You can read the full poem here.
Episode 26 - Dr Jasmin Kirkbride