contributor

Amy Cutler

Amy Cutler is a curator, writer, filmmaker, performer, and Early Career Research Fellow in GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her work explores themes of memory, loss, and ecology, including LAST YEAR (2015), a video-poem erasure of existing film subtitles about love and déjà vu, Davies thought life was long (English, 2014), an erasure text from a posthumous book index, and Nostalgia Forest (Oystercatcher Press, 2013), a combination of dendrochronology diagrams and fragments of Ricoeur’s Memory, History, Forgetting. She has poems with publishers and journals including Datableedzine, Intercapillary Space, Renscombe Press, Nine Arches Press, Dandelion, eMigrating Landscapes, The Clearing, and Philosophy Activism Nature (PAN). She performs live with musicians, and her poems and scores include deconstructions of love ballads and of natural history texts, such as You will become a sink in which life has killed life (2017), with Sylvia Hallett, and a forthcoming record of poems about decaying love and dark ecology recorded with the musicians Alex Neilson, Alastair Galbraith, and Richard Youngs. Her films and collaborations, including an extended series of films based on the piano music of Delphine Dora and the poems of Kathleen Raine, are online at www.amycutler.net