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Kay Syrad

Kay Syrad has published two novels and three collections of poetry. She was Poetry Editor for Envoi from 2014-2020 and writes poetry reviews and articles for a range of journals. Her new collection of eco-poetry – What is near (Cinnamon Press, 2021) – has been described as ‘a delicate yet impassioned fusion of elegy, activism and wonder.’

Kay is also half of the composite eco-poet kin’d & kin’d with Clare Whistler, with whom she writes collaboratively and runs eco-poetry workshops and events (see Blog for details of their upcoming programme). kin’d & kin’d‘s latest publication is Wild Correspondings: an eco-poetry source book (Elephant Press, 2021).

https://www.elephantpress.co.uk/elephant-press-bookshop/p/wild-correspondings

Please see Blog posts for information about upcoming readings and workshops, and email Kay through the Contact Form on this site for writing and editing commissions, bespoke workshops, and mentoring.



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New and recent poetry:

‘This collection is a quiet engagement with moss, air, horizons, the political, the scientific, the human, the non-human and the spaces-between where these things meet.’ Kim Lasky

Forthcoming from Cinnamon Press September 2021

https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Near-Kay-Syrad/dp/1788641132/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kay+syrad+what+is+near&qid=1629109709&s=books&sr=1-1