poetry, short & non-fiction | Jo Clement

Poetry, Short
& Non-Fiction

2026

2025

'if class is invisible these days', poem to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Tony Harrison’s V, Durham Book Festival.
'Kubla Kahn' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem-film (WritersMosaic).
'My Metty Blessing', Nexus Transport for Tyne & Wear.
'Knots', Songs of Ourselves, Vol. 3, (Cambridge University Press).

2024

Reviews: Ruth Padel's Girl (Penguin), Tim Tim Cheng's The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press), Helen Ivory's Constructions of a Witch (Bloodaxe) in The Poetry Society Winter Bulletin.
Reviews: Raymond Atrobus' Signs, Music (Picador), Danez Smith's Bluff (Penguin), Kathleen Jamie's The Keelie Hawk (Picador) in The Poetry Society Autumn Bulletin.
Reviews: Harry Josephine Gile's THEM! (Picador), Tamar Yoseloff's Belief Systems (Nine Arches), Imtiaz Dharker's Shadow Reader (Bloodaxe) in The Poetry Society Summer Bulletin.
Reviews: Victoria Kennefick's egg/shell (Carcanet), Isabel Galleymore's Baby Schema (Carcanet), Gillian Clark's The Silence (Carcanet) in The Poetry Society Spring Bulletin.
Co-editor, Thresholds: Poems by South Asian women in North East England, (Butcher's Dog Publishing).
'Existence: Poem & Commentary', Dancing About Architecture & other Ekphrastic Maneuvers, (MadHat Press).

2023

'Chicken Blood: Placing my Traveller Ethnicity in North East England', an illustrated lyric essay, WritersMosaic, Royal Literary Fund.
Reviews: Kwame Dawes' Sturge Town (Peepal Tree Press), Kostya Tsolakis' Greekling (Nine Arches Press), David Wheatley's Child Ballad (Carcanet Press) in The Poetry Society Winter Bulletin.
Reviews: Jacqueline Saphra's Velvel's Violin (Nine Arches), Mary Jean Chan's Bright Fear (Faber), Mary Oliver's Devotions: The Selected Poems (Penguin) in The Poetry Society Autumn Bulletin.
Reviews: Airea D Matthews' Bread & Circus (Picador), Selima Hill's Women in Comfortable Shoes (Bloodaxe), Lisa Kelly's The House of the Interpreter (Carcanet) in The Poetry Society Summer Bulletin.
Reviews: Liz Berry's The Home Child (Chatto), Will Harris' Brother Poem (Granta), Peter Bennett's Naylor & Folly Wood (Bloodaxe) in The Poetry Society Spring Bulletin.
Co-editor, Words Behind Walls: Prison Staff Writing, (Butcher's Dog Publishing).

2022

Debut collection: Outlandish, (Bloodaxe Books).
Three poems, Whose Heritage? Challenging Race & Identity in Stuart Hall’s Post-nation Britain, ed. Professor Susan Ashley & Degna Stone, (Routledge).
Review: 'Our Earth Inmost': Linda France's The Knucklebone Floor (Smokestack), Pippa Little's Time Begins to Hurt (Arc), & Selena Nwulu's A Little Resurrection (Bloomsbury), The Poetry Review.
'Paisley', Poems on the Underground.
'Vardo', Start the Week, BBC Radio 4.
'Listen', Ake Dikhea International Festival of Romani Film, RomaTrial. Animated short film installed permanently at the open-air exhibition Denkmal für die im Nationalsozialismus ermordeten Sinti und Roma Europas.
'Tinker's Tea', North Country, (Saraband).
'Larch', Financial Times.
'Wonderful Fish', North East Living.
'Travelling Light', Poetry London.
'sexing the bones', A Hut A Byens, (Bamburgh Heritage Trust).

2021

2020

‘Angling’, (BBC Your Local Arena & New Writing North.)
‘Ironwork: V&A’, The Dark Horse, Issue 42.
'Impression of Water', Poem of the Month, Diamond Twig.
‘Putèka to Poetry: A Review of Fury, David Morley’s Sixth Carcanet Collection’, (The Travellers’ Times).
Moveable Type, (New Writing North with Arts Council England).
'Homecoming', Witches, Warriors, Workers, (Culture Matters).
'The Traveller Road to Holy Island', six poem-films in collaboration with Damian Le Bas & W. John Hewitt. Funded by Arts Council England. A Durham Book Festival commission. (Writer & poem-film producer).

2019

The Traveller Road to Holy Island: Outlandish, Jo Clement & Damian Le Bas with drawings by W. John Hewitt (New Writing North with Arts Council England).
‘Inheritance’ & ‘Peg Man’, The Rialto, (Summer).
PhD Thesis: ‘Moveable Type: How might a contemporary ekphrastic practice illuminate Traveller representations in Thomas Bewick’s tail-piece prints?’, Newcastle University.

2018

Editor, Poems After The Blaydon Races, The Shipley Art Gallery Centenary, (Gateshead Council with Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums).
‘The Bull’s Shadow’, Mythologies, (Indigo Dreams).

2017

‘Manes’, Steps in Time smartphone application, (Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts).
‘Lolcatz’, What She Knew: Writers Respond to Lydia Davis, (Papaya Press).
‘Wonderful Fish’, Inspiring Futures, (Indigo Dreams).
'Fishing for Answers: Angling & the River Tyne', ERSC, Northumbria University.
'Lunar Mare', collaboration with Hapsburg Braganza for The Late Shows, The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead. (Writer & poem-film producer).
Review ‘Spots of Time in Andrew Motion’s Destination Norfolk’, Multiples, (Society of Wood Engravers).
‘Vignettes to Verse’, 100th Edition, Vol. 25. No.4, (PrintmakingToday).

2016

‘The Impression of Water’, PrintmakingToday, 100th Edition, Vol. 25. No.4, (Winter).
The Walk Round Guide to Holy Island, poems by Jo Clement & drawings by Alexia Mellor, pamphlet for Northern Landscapes: Picture Poems exhibition, (Newcastle Poetry Festival).
‘Write Around the Toon’ Residency Series: 'Leviathan', poem-film outstallation for Newcastle University. BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Writer in Residence.

2015

‘Considering The Long Journey’, Multiples, Number 27, (Society of Wood Engravers).
‘Polished', A Wood Engraving & its Poem, Multiples, Number 25, (Society of Wood Engravers).
'Wood Picture,' Birmingham Journal of Literature & Language, Vol. 7, (Feb).
'Polished', collaborative poem-film installation with soundscape by musician Rachael Hales (The Late Shows, Newcastle City Library).

2014