folklore – Kirsten Irving, poet & editor

Header reads "National Poetry Competition, Kirsten Irving, Then and Now"

Poetry Society Then & Now video series

Video reading of ‘Namazu at the Physicist’s Funeral’ and ‘Benjamins’.

Hot Cockalorum poetry book, with plum-coloured leather cover with embossed white cartoon cat skull

New poetry collection and audiobook: Hot Cockalorum!

Folklore! Masters! So many animals! My second full-length collection is out now from Guillemot Press!

Cover of Gramarye issue 18. Snow White is sat on a leafy ledge in a red and white dress, with roses in her long, dark hair. She is reaching down into a basket of apples held by an old peasant woman in a brown dress with red shawl.

Two folklore poems in Gramarye Journal

If you like folklore and fairytales, critical thinking and art, investigate the journal Gramarye.

A green shape on a paint-splashed piece of paper.

Something scaly this way comes!

Introducing Love Carcass, my erotish prose-poetry memoir of sex with a “squamous copper monster”. What’s not to love?