The first venture of Litmus can be found here.

I founded Litmus Publishing, and since sequences and pathogens, together with my prose co-editor, Elinor Cleghorn, we have produced thirteen single-authored publications and five academic journals (the forensic issue, the neurological issue, the haematological issue, the diagnostic issue, and the lichen issue), many of which are stocked in the Wellcome Library, the Poetry Library, Bodleian and Cambridge University to name a few.

As a researcher in poetic practice, I became interested in how information and processes operated, when the technical resonances clashed with poetic sensibilities. I was interested in the productive tensions and fluencies of assimilating biomedical language and the plurality of definitions that follow any assimilation of a new lexicon into creative practice; the organic, active echo of another discipline, fragmented from whichever source they departed.

My investigation was not just an individual endeavour, and I invited guest editors to collaborate so that it could advance in new directions, attract new writers and build fresh audiences. Sarah Crewe guest edited the haematological issue, Theodoros Chiotis was commissioning editor for the diagnostics issue, and Declan Wiffen edited the lichen issue.

Litmus has engaged both academic and non-academic audiences, resulting in speaking invitations from Sorbonne Nouvelle University, The Poetry Library and The Science Museum.