Eloise Armary

Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary (she/they) is a bilingual ecopoet born in France and based in Sussex, UK. They are a PhD researcher at the University of Brighton and the recipient of a Develop Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England.

They are the author of Body Compost & other ghost poems (2023). They are the director of several filmpoems and of the documentary short Collections of Queer Poets, awarded Best First Film by Together 2012! Film Festival.

They have performed poetry and spoke about poetics at academic, literary and climate-focused events such as Coast is Queer, Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe, Great Writing, London Arts Based Research Centre, Society of Gender Professionals, Behind the Greens and Creative Crawley.

They are the co-producer of the podcast Poetry To Your Ears and have interviewed contemporary English-speaking poets such as Roy McFarlane, Joelle Taylor, Hollie McNish, Michael Pederson, Simon Maddrell and Kimberly Nguyen.

Their poems have been published in Climate Courage, Magma, Young Poets Network (The Poetry Society), Happiful Magazine, Fawn Press, Sunday Mornings at The River, The Shallot, Powders Press, Aghh! Zine and other zines.

My research interests lie in ecopoetry, the verse novel, page poetry, performance poetry and poetry films, the Capitalocene and the Chtulucene, posthumanism, queer ecofeminist writing and multispecies storytelling. My research is informed by authors such as Donna Haraway, Anne Carson, Camille Dungy, Robin Wall Kimmerer.