Poet & General Nuisance

Often to be found high on a crumbling spiral staircase, or alone on a long walk, Jay Hulme is (so the biographies often say) an award winning transgender poet, theologian, speaker, and educator.

With a special interest in queer rights, nature, and theology, Jay’s work engages particularly with ideas of faith, place, and identity. Here there are no boundaries, as he intertwines the urban and pastoral; the sacred and mundane; the likely and the impossible.

A firm believer in childlike wonder, Jay’s books for children often combine mythical creatures and magical thinking with clear lessons on love, care, and self-belief. The lessons offered in his books for adults are often the same, albeit with fewer dragons.

At the heart of all of Jay’s work is a vision of a world full of beauty and possibility, offered up to us all through strange lichenous poems full of wilderness, mysticism, and love.