Recent anthologisation: CORRODING THE NOW: Poetry and Science / Sci-Fi (Veer Books, 2023)
Recent collaborative book: CONVERSATIONS WITH A FOREST (MIMC, Feb 2022), released following a film festival in Ruberslaw Wild Woods, Scotland.
Recent art writing: SING SIGN: Hanna Tuulikki’s hocket duet (Kelder Projects, July 2021)
Recent open access article: ‘Square Eyes, Square Landscapes’, in Moving Image Artists (MIA) 2 “Landscape Special Issue” (April 2020) - click link.
Cutler’s academic chapters and articles include the literary geography article ''A local habitation and a name': Writing Britain', the philosophy article 'Land Diagrams: the new twinned studies', and the eco-critical chapter ''Whitby is a statement': Littoral Geographies in British Poetry'.
Cutler’s writing explores themes of ecology, loss, memory, pathetic fallacy, and love. Her poetry manuscript Oh What Monsters toured with French pianist Delphine Dora, and a sample can be heard here from the Café OTO performance.
A recent print publication was the insect poetics collaboration with artist Rodrigo Arteaga, published by HVTN Press; Cutler’s description of the collaborative process was also printed here, discussing themes of mortality, taxonomy, animals, and insect writing. Cutler’s writing for performance include her Torriano Prose Poems collaboration on 14th July 2019 with Mischa Foster Poole (on the piano), for Steve Fowler’s Enemies Projects; programme and videos available here. Her forest writing aired as a full BBC3 Late Junction episode on 21st June 2018, Into the Forest, with the poems prompting new live compositions with string trio Barrel, whose improvisations call on disruption and riotous humour as well as a grounding in the classical tradition, and Lee Patterson with his array of amplified invented instruments, including field recordings of creaking trees and burning branches. Other musically-collaborative poems include the sea-parasite song Glaucus.
Amy has a commitment to small press and experimental writing for a number of different collaborations, tours, publications and commissions. She contributed a labyrinth page to the experimental MA Bibliotheque book The Lost Diagrams of Walter Benjamin, which was recently reprinted for a second edition (available here). She often works for sound or musicians, including as part of Writing Sound: Significant Landscapes, hosted by Sonic Art Research Unit, Oxford, and Location Composite #6 for composer James Saunders, with a concert hosted by POLYproject. Her individual work began with themes of memory, loss, and ecology, including LAST YEAR (2015), a video-poem erasure of existing film subtitles about love and déjà vu, Davies thought life was long (English, 2014), an erasure text from a posthumous book index, and Nostalgia Forest (Oystercatcher Press, 2013), a combination of dendrochronology diagrams and fragments of Ricoeur’s Memory, History, Forgetting. She has visual and textual poems with publishers and journals including Datableedzine, Intercapillary Space, Renscombe Press, Nine Arches Press, Infinite Editions, Dandelion, eMigrating Landscapes, The Clearing, Philosophy Activism Nature (PAN), and the Chicago Review (#MeToo: A Poetry Collective issue, 2018). She also performs live with musicians, and her poems and scores include deconstructions of love ballads and of natural history texts, such as You will become a sink in which life has killed life (2017) with Sylvia Hallett (commissioned performance at the William Morris gallery). She also often contributes to collaborative publications about science or forms of scientific and natural knowledge, including Herbarium (Capsule Editions), an anthology of commissioned experimental poems on medicinal weeds and herbs launched at the Urban Physic Garden, which was temporarily built in an old hospital grounds in Southwark, and Refracted Light (Renscombe Press), a collection of twenty poets responding to Jackson Mac Low's light poems, launched at the Wellcome Trust for the International Year of Light (2015). In live performance, this poem requires a desk lamp flashing on and off denoting asterism - the letters of a coded name, a withheld person, or absent light source in a love poem, seen in this performance or in this slightly rowdier cut-off version. She also works on translation, including her Polish Cultural Institute collaboration on Polish Women's Writing with Ula Chowaniec, as well as touring collaborations, including as part of the six poet line-up for the North By North West Poetry Tour curated by Tom Jenks and SJ Fowler (2017); recordings of her tour collaborations with Chris McCabe in Manchester and Nathan Walker in Sheffield are available here and here. She also completed new writing for Erland Cooper's Solan Goose set in 2018 (based on sea-bird ballads of grief and heartbreak and John James Audubon's ornithological memoirs), as well as a project of karaoke-sung poems about memory, love, and pop clichés of gender, first performed as Time's Karaoke, at Surrey Poetry Festival 2018.