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Jade Cuttle

Jade Cuttle is The Observer's poetry critic. After working at The Times as an Arts Commissioning Editor, she now presents programs like Digging for Words on Radio 3 in her role as a BBC New Generation Thinker. She has judged prizes like the Costa Book Awards. @JadeCuttle

Photo of Jade Cuttle

Jade Cuttle

Jade Cuttle is The Observer's poetry critic. After working at The Times as an Arts Commissioning Editor, she now presents programs like Digging for Words on Radio 3 in her role as a BBC New Generation Thinker. She has judged prizes like the Costa Book Awards. @JadeCuttle

  • Jade Cuttle
    Poetry book of the month: Unsafe by Karen McCarthy Woolf

    Nature poetry is dragged into the 21st century in this searing portrait of economic, social and racial disparity

    Sat, 31 Jan 2026

  • Jade Cuttle
    Confessions of a parish priest

    In frank, witty, soul-searching poems, clergyman turned archaeologist Graeme Richardson draws on both strands of his career for his debut collection Dirt Rich

    Sat, 3 Jan 2026

  • Jade Cuttle
    Digging for the dead

    Josephine Balmer’s selected poems, Things We Leave Behind, excavates lost objects and voices from the depths of history

    Sun, 16 Nov 2025

  • Jade Cuttle
    Phillis Wheatley, the first Black nature poet

    Enslaved as a child, the 18th-century writer was a pioneer of nature poetry

    Thu, 23 Oct 2025

  • Jade Cuttle
    Simon Armitage makes peace with the dead

    In New Cemetery, the poet laureate draws on the wonder of moths and the death of his father to produce a haunting sequence of poems

    Sun, 31 Aug 2025

  • Jade Cuttle
    Marcia Hutchinson’s small acts of mercy

    This daring debut is a sobering but sweet tale of a girl growing up in 1960s Bradford with her Jamaican family

    Sun, 24 Aug 2025

  • Jade Cuttle
    Nature’s glorious patchwork: the poetry of Nina Mingya Powles

    In the Hollow of the Wave weaves a striking vision of our beautiful, fragile world

    Sun, 27 Jul 2025

  • Jade Cuttle
    The women of Greek tragedy speak

    In Mona Arshi’s third poetry collection, Mouth, the marginalised of mythology make a stand

    Sun, 29 Jun 2025

  • Jade Cuttle
    A post-punk cabaret singer’s funny, fiery poetry collection

    A post-punk cabaret singer’s funny, fiery collection punctures female stereotypes with needle-like precision

    Sat, 31 May 2025

  • Jade Cuttle
    Poetry book of the month: Mind your language

    Éireann Lorsung’s vibrant debut delights in the slipperiness of the world and the words we use to capture it

    Sun, 4 May 2025

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