HELEN MOORE: ecopoet / socially engaged artist / writer
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Helen Moore, bio
Dr Helen Moore is a pioneering British ecopoet, socially engaged artist, writer, translator and academic based in Bristol. She has published three ecopoetry collections, Hedge Fund, And Other Living Margins (Shearsman Books, 2012), ECOZOA (Permanent Publications, 2015), acclaimed by the Australian poet John Kinsella as ‘a milestone in the journey of ecopoetics’, and The Mother Country (Awen Publications, 2019). INTATTO. INTACT: Ecopoesia. Ecopoetry, a bilingual Italian-English work, co-authored with Massimo D'Arcangelo (Italy) and Anne Elvey (Australia), was published by La Vita Felice in 2017.
Helen has recently collaborated on a translation of Teodora Mastrototaro's Il piano finale/The ultimate stor(e)y, which will be published by Industria & Letteratura as a bilingual and illustrated book of ecopoetry.
Helen offers an online mentoring programme, Wild Ways to Writing, and works with students internationally.
Her work has been funded by the Royal Literary Fund, the Society of Authors and Arts Council England, and has been nominated for the Forward and Pushcart Prizes.
Helen curates ECOPOETIKON, an online showcase of global ecopoetries, and teaches modules part-time on the BA in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire and on the MA in Creative Writing at Arts University Bournemouth.
In 2021, Helen collaborated with Cape Farewell on ‘RiverRun’, a cross arts-science project examining pollution in Poole Bay, which culminated with gallery-based exhibitions between 2021-23. river / run, an ecopoetic trilogy, was published by Cape Farewell Books in 2024.
She is currently working on a climate memoir about her relationship with wild Atlantic Salmons (read an excerpt here) and is co-authoring a book with Professor Arran Stibbe on global ecopoetries and narrative ecology to be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2027.
Helen's fourth ecopoetry collection, The Last Lighthouse in Rising Seas, is forthcoming from Palewell Press in May 2026.