Books
peel me Watcher
Guillemot Press, 2025
ISBN 978-1-913749-64-4 / 36 pages / design by Luke Thompson
A moment of looking changes the fabric of reality. Drawn to a single object in an art gallery, a visitor is pulled into an unexpected intimacy where the usual boundaries between self and thing, language and body are turned inside out. Through this encounter, told in vivid and uncanny poems, peel me Watcher traces how art might look back at us, revealing new ways of seeing and being seen.
girlhoof
Salò Press, 2024
ISBN 978-1-917264-00-6 / 26 pages
girlhoof is acid-pink monstrosity taking a tour through bodies and disembodiment. Trying on the subject positions of animals, ghosts and crowds, Flo Reynolds asks how objectification might be subverted through mischief as method. These poems hold girlhood and its discontents in all their strangeness and rage, with both tenderness and a knowing wink.
the other body
Guillemot Press, 2021
Illustrated by Phyllida Bluemel / cover design by Luke Thompson / ISBN 978-1-913749-05-7 / 36 pages
Written in conversation with snails, slime moulds and spookfish, the other body sees Flo Reynolds explore inter-species relationships and the ways in which the human body is inextricable from worlds beyond its perception. By turns playful and contemplative, the central sequence coalesces and disassembles into something like love poems, equally for creatures embodied in “tissue + rib + aura” and those whose forms are wondrously different.
Current projects
My current interdisciplinary poetry project, CYMA, explores the sensory ecologies, Cold War history and climate futures of site in Norfolk, through a neurodivergence/ disability lens. Find out more about the project.
I am also redrafting a novella about chronic illness and climate crisis, and working on a book of essays. And lots of other things!
Praise for my writing
“Flo Reynolds’ new collection is brilliant. I read the whole thing out loud and felt each word – both real and invented – sitting deeply in my chest.”
Lewis Buxton, peel me watcher
“Immediately, I was immersed in a visceral, almost transformative experience of nature. […] the writing throbbed with energy […] really animated the natural world.”
JUDGES’ COMMENTS, WILD MUSE NATURE WRITING COMPETITION 2024 (SHORTLISTED)
“These are lyrics for anyone bewitched by the world and wanting to cast their own spells on it.”
Harry Josephine Giles, girlhoof
“Reynolds’ work […] is profoundly ecopoetic”
BILLY MILLS, reviewing the other body
“This is an assured, knowledgeable body of work.”
Jennifer A. McGowan, reviewing the other body
Selected publications, etc.
Poems
Propel issue 8, ‘poltergeist‘, poem and audio file, 2023.
Fruit issue 4, “magic fortune fish“, poem and audio file, 2021.
Anthropocene, “the other body”, “houseplants” and “still life with mangelwurzel”, 2020.
Modern Queer Poets #1 (Pilot Press, London), “the reading” and “I’m a riddle and you’re working me out”, 2019.
The White Review online poetry feature December 2019, “hello stranger”; “dear Other with pink dish”, collaborative poem with Cat Woodward, 2019.
Stand magazine, #223 (17:3), “naturecultures”, 2019.
The Interpreter’s House #72, “poem for my lisp“, 2019.
amberflora #7, “the other body [ix]” and “the other body [x]”, 2019.
Magma #73, “gwendolen’s elbow”, 2019.
Datableed #11, “in the shell”, “white noise”, “the chair forgets it’s a chair until it burns”, 2019.
para-text #6, “wolf mask”, “the new space”, “dog.mask.rose.room”, 2018.
Haverthorn V4.2 “assemblage”, “vertigo II”, “her fingerhold fire”, “generosity”, 2018.
Over there: a queer anthology of joy (Pilot Press, London), “her blue book”, 2018.
Volta: an Obscurity of Poets (Salo Press, Norwich), “venus rising”, 2018.
The Poetry School, “littoral”, 2016.
Works to commission
In-scar-nation, collaborative poetry performance with Petra Palkovacsova, European Poetry Festival, 2025.
No, Robot, No! (Sidekick Books, London), “wetware”, collaborative poem commission with Cat Woodward, 2018.
Birdbook III (Sidekick Books, London), “Hen Harrier: The Gamekeeper’s Verdict”, commissioned poem, 2015.
Young Poets Network: “Paul Muldoon’s ‘Parnassus and Tin Pan Alley’” , 2012.
Awards, residencies & prizes
Shortlisted for the Wild Muse Nature Writing Competition, 2024.
SPILL Think Tank Artist in Residence, 2024.
Developing Your Creative Practice grant, Arts Council England, 2023.
Longlisted for the Gingko Prize, 2019.
Longlisted for the Rebecca Swift Prize, 2018.
Press, articles,guest blogs
“When there’s no one else to talk to, writing is there“, interviewed by Elspeth Wilson for (Neurodivergent) Notes on Writing, 2025.
National Centre for Writing, “How to get your poetry published“, 2020.
Sphinx, “‘softens the between-us’: Anne Sherry’s Failing to Find Old Sarum“, 2020.
Sphinx, “An honest thief: Anna Cathenka’s they are really molluscs“, 2019.
National Centre for Writing, “Edinburgh Dispatches: Discovering the Festival“, 2018.
National Centre for Writing, “Kolkata: Mapping Stories“, 2018.
National Centre for Writing, “Literary Translation Summer School“, 2017.
Parallel Magazine, “Hannah Silva’s Schlock!”, 2014.
The Forum, Norwich, “Virginia Woolf and the Total Perspective Vortex”, lecture, 2013.
White Paint Magazine #5, “Poetry and Technology”, 2012.
The Writing Life podcast, 2019-2021
Interview with Jenn Ashworth, 2021.
Interview with Lynn Buckle, 2021.
Interview with Will Harris, 2020.
Interview with Anita Terpstra, 2020.
How to get your poetry published, 2020.
The responsibility of writers with Kendel Hippolyte, 2020.
Exploring themes through character with Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, 2020.
From teacher to writer with Ashley Hickson-Lovence, 2020.
Taking yourself seriously with Cat Woodward, 2020.
Interview with Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, 2019.
Interview with Sharlene Teo, 2019.
Performances & exhibitions
In-scar-nation, collaborative poetry performance with Petra Palkovacsova, European Poetry Festival, 2025.
Headline performance, Volta Poetry, Norwich, 2025.
Launch of girlhoof, The Warwick Arms, Norwich, 29th September 2024.
Launch of the other body, Guillemot Press, performance, 2021.
The Lanes Garden Party, Lord Mayor’s Celebration, Norwich, performance, 2018.
Lighthouse, Norwich, performance 2018.
Volta, Norwich, performances, various dates 2017-18.
Art Pocket Book Arts, Norwich Millennium Library, book arts exhibition, 2016.
The Forum, Norwich, “Virginia Woolf and the Total Perspective Vortex”, lecture, 2013.
Le Slam: A Night of Multilingual Poetry, Norwich, performance, 2012.
Popshot x Art in the Underbelly, “The ceramicist”, exhibited poem with illustration by Rachel Lovatt, 2012.
Teaching & creative facilitation
Hymns to Life: Poetry, Documentary & Time, 10-week course, The Poetry School, 2025.
The NCW Book Club, discussion sessions for adults, National Centre for Writing, various dates 2020-2022.
Running your online festival, workshop for young people, National Centre for Writing, 2020.
Breaking News, discussion session for adults, Norwich Millennium Library, various dates 2018-2020.
Rights, Risks and Reputations, workshop for arts professionals, Norwich, 2018.
Managing your event, workshop for young people, National Centre for Writing, 2018.
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