The eel

FPG Sounds, June 2022

Focal Point Gallery commission as part of ‘FPG Sounds’, an online project to support the development of new sound works by artists from or based in Southend-on-Sea. ‘The eel’ focuses on the migration and life cycle of the European eel explored through sound and memory across Friesland, the Netherlands, and Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, UK.

The Prize

Legitimate Snack 029, February 2022

A poetry pamphlet with the Broken Sleep Books imprint Legitimate Snack, handmade limited editions using a variety of paperstock. Limited to 40 copies.

‘Green for When the Bergs Tip Over’

Utrecht City of Literature, February 2022

Commissioned poem for Utrecht City of Literature Poëzieweek 2022 on the theme of ‘Nature’. Accompanying illustration by Cheyenne Goudswaard.

New Little Habitats,
New Little Hopes (book review)

Caught by the River, September 2021

A review of the book No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen by Ken Worpole (Little Toller Books), an honest story of the pacifists who took possession of Frating Hall Farm, Essex, in 1943 and of the struggles and joys of imagining, forming and dismantling communities.

Foulness Island (from VLOED)

Hotel Magazine, May 2021

The section ‘Foulness Island’ from the book VLOED, published online for Hotel Magazine. Features two short film readings of the poems ‘Burial Party’ and ‘Trumpet scales’ taken in Oudelande, the Netherlands.

VLOED

Dunlin Press, May 2021

Comprising historical analysis, poetry and photography, the book explores the shared cultural memory and landscape between Essex and the Netherlands in relation to the North Sea Flood of 1953. The disaster, which left deep impressions at both local and national levels across the two places, is perceived here through the lenses of heritage, homesickness and decay.

‘Proper English’

Plot Twist, December 2020

An essay on offal and the cultural politics of disgust. Published in Plot Twist II, a collection of 11 essays and short stories by the hosts of Plot Twist’s 2019-2020 programme of reading groups and workshops. Find out how to order here.

Dostoyevsky Cities: Amsterdam

Dostoyevsky Wannabe, March 2020

Seven new poems published in Dostoyevsky Cities: Amsterdam (2020), an anthology edited by Nadia de Vries. The anthology was launched on the 1st March 2020 at Splendor, Amsterdam.

Say cucumber

Broken Sleep Books, November 2019

Fragmented experiences and memories from Russia and Essex, Lucia’s debut poetry pamphlet Say cucumber leads you into a world that slips between the familiar and unfamiliar. Life in Russex, in all its sensory vividness, is grown, stuffed, picked and pickled until what you thought you recognised has been rearranged and changed into something new.

‘Trumpet scales’

Hopelessly failing to describe my attachment
Lucie De Bréchard, Sandberg Instituut, June 2019

‘Trumpet scales’ is a commissioned poem for the book Hopelessly failing to describe my attachment edited by Lucie De Bréchard. De Bréchard designed and published the book for her graduation project at the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, presented in June 2019.

(PLANET B)

Tentacular Magazine, June 2019

The essay (PLANET B) is a critical look at the cultural terraformation of Mars. If man travels to Mars within our lifetime, under what conditions should a new poetic form be created to bring to Mars so as to represent those who were colonised on our own planet? Set out in 14 sections and reflecting on the linguistic experiments of Mexican artist Ulises Carrión, this essay attempts to answer this through exploration of the sonnet. In collaboration with Dutch illustrator Maarten Huizing.

‘Vessel’

The Tangerine, issue eight, May 2019

Poem published in the eighth issue of The Tangerine magazine, a Belfast-based magazine of new writing.

Dialogue Poems

Stukafest reading, February 2019

Performing for the Dutch student-room festival in Groningen, the series Dialogue Poems presented poetry in conversation. Through visual media and readings of poems that use of linguistic turn-taking structures typically found in conversation, Lucia invited the audience to listen in to conversations, and enter into dialogue with unusual characters and situations.

‘Yaga’

Bedtime Stories for the End of the World
Season 1, Episode 3, July 2018

Bedtime Stories for the End of the World is a poetry podcast about the power of myth and the politics of storytelling. In her commissioned poem ‘Yaga’, Lucia responds to Baba Yaga, the crone-goddess of Eastern European ancient origin, who represents the paradoxical and monstrous maternal.

‘Distraction in conversation’

The Poetry Review, winter issue, December 2017

Poem published in The Poetry Review. Volume 107, No 4.

‘Scoundrel’

The Tangerine, issue two, May 2017

Poem published in the second issue of The Tangerine magazine, a Belfast-based magazine of new writing.

Creative Correspondence in the City

Innervate: Online Essay Journal, 2015-16
School of English, the University of Nottingham

For her undergraduate dissertation, Lucia researched creative projects mediated by digital platforms that physically (re)connect people to their urban environment, aiming to create shared narrative experiences through the use of technology. Additionally, she curated her own project mediated through traditional letter-writing and smartphone email communication to encourage participants to explore the hybridised digital and physical spaces of the city.

The Letters Page, Special Issue

The Letters Page, summer 2016
School of English, the University of Nottingham

A one-off The Letters Page issue, edited by Jon McGregor and guest-edited by Lucia, featuring letters by participants who took part in Creative Correspondence in the City. The issue features Elin Keyser’s ‘Mapping Correspondence’, an architectural-style illustration mapping the locations and trajectories of the participants and their letters.