@JadeCuttle

🎙BBC New Gen Thinker—Faber book forthcoming 📚Observer poetry critic; ex-Commissioning Editor @TheTimes ⚔️Viking/detectorist/mudlark 🎓Poetry PhD Cambridge

 Cambridge University
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Joined December 2011
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John Ironmonger: ‘I have a profound love for chimpanzees’ The zoologist turned author on the magic and horrors of growing up in Kenya, holding trophy hunters to account, and being big in Germany ✍️ @JadeCuttle bit.ly/4y5k1IO

John Ironmonger: ‘I have a profound love for chimpanzees’

The zoologist turned author on the magic and horrors of growing up in Kenya, holding trophy hunters to account, and being big in Germany

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Replying to @jwironmonger
@jwironmonger: "I’d always loved writing, but for years it was just a hobby." Read the full interview as @JadeCuttle speaks to the zoologist turned author on the magic and horrors of growing up in Kenya, holding trophy hunters to account, and being big in Germany. bit.ly/4y5k1IO

John Ironmonger: ‘I have a profound love for chimpanzees’

The zoologist turned author on the magic and horrors of growing up in Kenya, holding trophy hunters to account, and being big in Germany

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Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s novel of human violence and natural wonder The poet’s intricate debut, set during the Kenyan Mau Mau uprising, has nature’s beauty at its core ✍️ @JadeCuttle bit.ly/4w4P3jI

Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s novel of human violence and natu...

The poet’s intricate debut, set during the Kenyan Mau Mau uprising, has nature’s beauty at its core

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Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s novel of human violence and natural wonder The poet’s intricate debut, set during the Kenyan Mau Mau uprising, has nature’s beauty at its core, writes @JadeCuttle bit.ly/4w4P3jI

Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s novel of human violence and natu...

The poet’s intricate debut, set during the Kenyan Mau Mau uprising, has nature’s beauty at its core

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John Challis@johndchallisMay 31
Thanks so much to @JadeCuttle for this wonderful review of The Green Parcel in today’s @ObsNewReview, alongside Kim Moore’s The House of Broken Things The Green Parcel is out later in June, but advance copies are available directly from @BloodaxeBooks bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/produc…
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“I was excited by the opportunity to unleash [the objects] from their cage,” says @JadeCuttle Now on display at the Museum of Writing @SenateHouseLib is a huge private collection of writing-related ephemera spanning more than 5,000 years bit.ly/4dgit7v

A forager’s tale | The Observer

A huge private collection of writing-related ephemera spanning more than 5,000 years is now on public display at the Museum of Writing

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Also in Poetry Review @PoetrySociety. @JadeCuttle writes evocatively of her passion for soil, & of 'the bold & beating heart of 'Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority'.
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Jennifer Lee Tsai's first full-length poetry book Melete is reviewed in @ObserverUK of 3 May. With thanks to @JadeCuttle for featuring Melete as a Poetry Book of the Month.
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Boris Dralyuk@BorisDralyukJan 6
Thd @ObserverUK’s @JadeCuttle digs up some of the finest lines in @MrRavoon’s “Dirt Rich,” one of the finest collections I’ve read in a long while, and identifies what makes these often bleakly funny poems, at bottom, so unexpectedly uplifting. observer.co.uk/culture/books…
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Very thrilled by this lovely review of my Selected Poems from @ShearsmanBooks in today’s The Observer @ObsNewReview by the incredibly thoughtful @JadeCuttle. observer.co.uk/culture/books…

Digging for the dead | The Observer

Josephine Balmer’s selected poems, Things We Leave Behind, excavates lost objects and voices from the depths of history

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Are you a lower-income writer interested in how to lead a more ethical and creatively fulfilling writing life? We have x50 half-price tickets available which give full access to our #ConsciousWritingMonth series - no application required! literaryconsultancy.co.uk/ev…
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What is #ConsciousWritingMonth? Lovingly curated by @JadeCuttle, this series invites you to take a moment as a writer for pause and reflection. In a busy world, we invite you to come together for five weeks of vital 'writing, reflection and renewal'. So, what's in store? ...
“Welcome to Conscious Writing Month, a gentle invitation to journey together across five weeks of writing, reflection, and renewal. I’m honored to hold this space with you — and cannot wait to see where your words will take us. Welcome in.” - Jade Cuttle

ALT “Welcome to Conscious Writing Month, a gentle invitation to journey together across five weeks of writing, reflection, and renewal. I’m honored to hold this space with you — and cannot wait to see where your words will take us. Welcome in.” - Jade Cuttle

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🖊️ @JadeCuttle’s thoughtful review in @ObserverUK praises @Marciathewriter's debut, #TheMercyStep! Read the review and meet your next unforgettable read⬇️ observer.co.uk/culture/books…

Marcia Hutchinson’s small acts of mercy | The Observer

This daring debut is a sobering but sweet tale of a girl growing up in 1960s Bradford with her Jamaican family

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Simon Armitage makes peace with the dead In New Cemetery, the poet laureate draws on the wonder of moths and the death of his father to produce a haunting sequence of poems. @JadeCuttle bit.ly/3I1sVTp

Simon Armitage makes peace with the dead | The Observer

In New Cemetery, the poet laureate draws on the wonder of moths and the death of his father to produce a haunting sequence of poems

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Thank you so much @JadeCuttle for such a sensitive review of #TheMercyStep in today's Observer Over many moons at this fabulous review of my solo debut novel #TheMercyStep In The Observer today observer.co.uk/culture/books… #debutfiction #blackbooks #autofiction – at Manchester, England
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"This unapologetically original poet invites us to love the land and tread with care" - Great to see this stunning review of Nina Mingya Powles's new collection In the Hollow of the Wave from @ninearchespress in the Observer from @JadeCuttle > observer.co.uk/culture/books…

Nature’s glorious patchwork: the poetry of Nina Mingya Po...

In the Hollow of the Wave weaves a striking vision of our beautiful, fragile world

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Thank you @JadeCuttle and @ObserverUK for selecting In the Hollow of the Wave by Nina Mingya Powles as Poetry Book of the Month in today's paper. Finding a "striking vision of our beautiful, fragile world" from an "unapologetically original poet" ninearchespress.com/publicat…
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'What isn't nature poetry, when everything we know begins and ends with the earth?' @JadeCuttle is at the University of Cambridge, researching British nature poets of colour. Listen to her Essay on BBC R3, that highlights upcoming anthology Nature Matters: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00298f…
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Jade Cuttle's brilliant review of Measures of Weather for The Observer is now online. thank you @JadeCuttle @ShearsmanBooks theguardian.com/books/2025/f…

Measures of Weather by JR Carpenter review – deft verse that offers a guiding light

The British Canadian poet’s new collection invokes the elements as it interrogates imperialism, patriarchy and climate emergency

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Measures of Weather is The Observer’s poetry book of the month! in the print edition today, online Tuesday morning. thank you @JadeCuttle for this deep dive close read big picture. I feel seen and heard and all the other weathers. @shearsmanbooks
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