Claire Walker – Poet and Editor

Myth | Woman is a poetic study in observation. Here, Barnes and Walker interrogate the beauty and bastardisation of women in myth. The anatomy of both language and body have been examined through these poems, to document how mer-women’s edges have been curved – alongside our own.

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Hierarchy of Needs (a retelling) is a call-and-response poetry pamphlet written in collaboration with poet and writer Charley Barnes.

This book is a poetic re-imagining of Abraham Maslow’s original (1943) hierarchy of needs pyramid. The pamphlet first considers the needs of the natural world around us, before exploring what a revised structure may look like for humans in the present day.

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