J. R. Carpenter
Essence Press has published two publications with J. R. Carpenter.
cobble
cobble | J. R. Carpenter | two hand cut cobble shapes drawn from real cobbles, with a tracing paper insert, in a grey envelope | envelope: h140mm x w140mm | printed inkjet; Bockingford watercolour paper, 300gsm and tracing paper; | open edition | 2025 | purchase
a cobble is a rock that’s smaller than a boulder and larger than a pebble. in a riverine environment, cobbles are worn smooth. the cobbles in this poem come from the River Ribble in North Yorkshire. they are composed of Lower Carboniferous limestone and contain the fossilised remains of an extinct species of coral which lived in a warm shallow sea approximately 340 million years ago, when Yorkshire was close to the equator.
Less #12 | J. R. Carpenter
here’s some green
less #12 | here’s some green | J. R. Carpenter | single print, h164mm x w229mm, in a green envelope | printed inkjet in two shades of green on Bockingford watercolour paper | May 2024 | £5 | purchase
J. R. Carpenter is an artist, writer, and researcher working across performance, print, and digital media. Her digital poem The Gathering Cloud won the New Media Writing Prize 2016. Her print collection An Ocean of Static was highly commended by the Forward Prizes 2018. This is a Picture of Wind was listed in The Guardian’s best poetry books of 2020. Her collection The Pleasure of the Coast is published by Pamenar Press, and Measures of Weather from Shearsman Books was The Observer’s poetry book of the month and was shortlisted for the 2025 Laurel Prize. She is a Lecturer in Performance Writing at University of Leeds. luckysoap.com