APPEARANCES
Jade Cuttle is a nature writer from Yorkshire. She broadcasts regularly as a BBC/AHRC Next Generation Thinker 2024, after starting her career at The Times as an Arts Commissioning Editor. Her AHRC-funded research at Cambridge University, supervised by Robert Macfarlane, provides the first scholarly study of British nature poets of colour ahead of Nature Matters: New Poetries by Black and Asian Writers of the diaspora (Faber, 2025). Jade has won a ‘30 To Watch: Journalism Award’ and a Northern Writers Award. Her poetry and plant-whispering has been filmed by BBC One, with television appearances on ITV and Look North. She is a university guest-lecturer, writing non-fiction and historical fiction.
About
Jade Cuttle
Award Winning Author
and unearths an overlooked tradition
and unearths an overlooked tradition
Memoir
"Silthood by Jade Cuttle is stunning, original, genre-bending non-fiction" — Penguin Random House Non-Fiction Publishing Director, Marianne Tatepo & Rachel Mills of RML Agency
Reviews
Poetry
“Jade Cuttle is creating a new wave of poetry with her orchid duets. Others use music to perform their poetry over, but Jade collaborates with nature. Her ensemble of creativity is going to shift the poetry scene” — BBC Radio London
"Jade is an exciting new voice in contemporary British poetry who has a fresh perspective on the lyric tradition; her poetry is accessible yet highly innovative and based on an interaction between experimental techniques allied to conventional lyrical approaches"— Daljit Nagra, Northern Writers Awards mentor 2021
"Jade writes thrilling and utterly fresh, formally inventive eco-poetry that doesn’t use the landscape to explore politics or the self but realises that the self, politically and physically, is intertwined with geography and in fact with the very nature of language itself" — Andrew McMillan, Northern Writers Awards judge 2021
Songwriting
"Effortlessly switching from spoken-word poetry and folk lyrics accompanied by a gentle finger-picked guitar style, her pieces evoke the beauty and melancholy of the natural world and our place within it" — Norfolk Wildlife Trust, Ewan Carr
Books
In progress
Silthood
Jade Cuttle's memoir explores a concept of 'silthood', a term she coined to explore ancient connections between soil and self. The book draws on her passions for metal detecting, medieval re-enacting and mudlarking, and is currently being drafted with an editor at Faber & Faber through their Writing Chance Scheme, co-founded by Michael Sheen.
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