July 2023 — New pamphlet!
Tracking Light, Stacking Time: responses to astrophotography
“NJ Hynes skilfully draws together astronomical phenomena and human experience – and in so doing changes our perspective on them both.”
— Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal
“She has breathed the stars in and crafted poems that spark.”
— Lorraine Mariner, Poet and Librarian at the National Poetry Library, author of There Will Be No More Nonsense
“Her words defy gravity, her images shimmer, shift, slip and sink […] a unique and powerful meditation on our greatest and our most microscopic joys and challenges, and the threads that weave us into everything.”
— Tania Hershman, author of Still Life with Octopus
“This collection is itself a cluster of lambent worlds, each of them with a unique atmosphere, a different view of the cosmos, a distinctive gravitational pull.”
— Philip Ball, author of Patterns in Nature and How to Grow a Human
The pamphlet includes “At Ahu Akivi”, which was published in the Washington Post alongside an essay about how the project came to be, and two poems chosen for Magma 84, Physics issue, “Furnace” and “Astronomers call it a shell”
Sincerest thanks to all the photographers whose artistry and generosity made this project possible
Buy it from Live Canon here
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2022 Untitled tanka in Presence (haikupresence.org)
2022 Two poems in Magma 84, Physics issue, “Furnace” and “Astronomers call it a shell”
2022 Leonardo at Djerassi, month-long Art/Sci residency at Djerassi Resident Artists Program in California, USA (postponed from 2020)
2021/2022 “Ode to plastic” in The Rialto
2021 Published selections from “Learning to be White” series in Long Poem Magazine
2020 “Third World Aquarium” in Other Worlds: adventures in alternate realities, Mslexia issue 86
2019 Reading at Wilderness Festival, Oxford, with Royal Geographic Society
2019 Winner, Battered Moons Poetry Competition, “The moon yawns and keeps yawning”
2019 Commission from Maritime Radio; broadcast of the poem won gold in the creative category at Community Radio Awards
2019 Department of Emotional Projects 2nd print run
2018 Commended, Brittle Star poetry competition, “Wave or Particle?’
2018 Winner of the Poetry Society member’s competition, Summer 2018
poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/why-i-wont-run-away-to-join-the-circus/
2017, 2016 Commended, Poetry on the Lake
2016 Residency at Saison Poetry Library, Royal Festival Hall, London – “Living in Future Times”
2014 Winner of the Live Canon inaugural first collection competition for The Department of Emotional Projections
2014 Shortlisted, Mslexia pamphlet competition
Longlisted, National Poetry Competition
2013 Commended, Poetry London
2009 Winner of Greenwich Borough Prize, Live Canon Poetry Competition
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