Biography

Autumn Richardson is a poet, translator, editor and publisher. Her poetry, texts and translations have been published widely in literary journals, pamphlets, anthologies, books and exhibitions. Her work evolves from sustained immersion in specific landscapes and a research practice incorporating ecology, history, philosophy and ethnology. Since 2009 she has been co-director of multi-media publishing house Corbel Stone Press, with British artist Richard Skelton. Between 2013 and 2022 they curated the influential journal of eco-poetics and esoteric literature, Reliquiae. She has been awarded literary fellowships from The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Canada), The Wordsworth Trust (UK), and The Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland), among others.

‘It is as if Autumn Richardson has learned the secret incantations of ancient and elemental things, understood the languages used by wood, stone, fire.’ (Mark Valentine)

Her work includes Field Notes (Volume One) and Memorious Earth (both co-authored with Richard Skelton), and Heart of Winter, a collection of poetry and translations based upon the journals of arctic explorer Knud Rasmussen. Her first full-length collection, An Almost-Gone Radiance, was selected as a Scottish Book of the Year (2018) by The Scottish Review of Books. Her latest collection, Ajar To The Night, was published with Scarlet Imprint (2020). She lives in Connemara, Ireland.

​‘Her work combines intimately personal sensory perceptions with the experience of vast ranges of geological time and space, the crossing from human identity to a trans-human world-identity.’ (John Steffler)