Kim Crowder writes poetry and non-fiction essays focusing on aspects of nature, human-animal relations, rural lives and the unofficial histories of people, places and things.
She is a 2025 recipient of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for poetry. In 2024 she participated in the Edwin Morgan Trust’s Clydebuilt 16 poetry mentoring scheme. Her professional and academic background spans anthropology and visual art.
PhD in Visual Anthropology (Goldsmiths, University of London, 2012). MA Research Methods (Goldsmiths, University of London, 2007). MA Textile Culture (Norwich School of Art and Design, 2004).
She is based in North East Scotland.
Poems that reflect an intense engagement with the natural world. They document its flora and fauna, the beauty and vulnerability of its landscapes — and confront the realities of environmental change.
Poetry has been published in journals and literary magazines including The Rialto, Wet Grain, Causeway Cabhsair, Gilded Dirt, Skirting Around, The Prescription, Metachrosis, Heather Anthology of Scottish Writing, Pennine Platform, Argo, Envoi, Delta, Encounter, Ore, The New Statesman.
Writing an essay involved much more than cerebral circulation: in researching I’ve been grabbed by an impulse, a compulsion, verging on feral, that has fired unanticipated synaptic leaps. The refractoriness of words, ‘facts’, and forms that refuse supposed limits and boundaries ...
Kim Crowder, in On Ancestral Skin and Bone, 2023.
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