“I am profoundly impressed by one aspect of his manner of communicating, and that is the presence of reverence.”
Franz Wright, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
“…the language is lush and evocative, the scene haunted.”
Books
- A Woodland Lexicon (Little Gidding Press, 2025)
- “A density of language combined with moral clarity; English landscapes at once troubled by violence and redeemed by their raw beauty; and, always, the sense of prayer that moves both within and beyond logic: such is Travis Wright’s début volume, A Woodland Lexicon. Its appearance is a moment to celebrate.” Kevin Hart, Duke University
- “Travis Wright seeks to trace the ‘syntax’ of a reality at once wholly itself and a sign of the shining presence of its source. . . Even in death and decomposition, creation is alive and charged with strangeness beyond the reach of our human language—yet these poems lift the veil to make it known.” Sally Thomas, University of St. Thomas
- “An antipastoral of a twice-damned landscape, which damns the reader in turn for his inability to see or to speak. Nature, too, is dumb, and can only almost reveal its creator in glimpses of near-miss theophany. . . How do we loved an earth condemned? Wright has bequeathed a lexicon for a postlapsarian love of place.” Dan Rattelle, Author of Painting Over the Growth Chart
- Rewilding (forthcoming)
- Plains of Moab (in process)
Selected Poems
- “Egret Rising” in Elemental Poetry Cambridge, eds. Peter Carpenter, Mark Wormald and Michael McKimm. Worple Press.
- “Accidental” in The Journal
- “Lessons in Gyotaku” in The Bangalore Review
- “Elegy for Sijctghen, A Good Duck” in Duck
- “Walking through Icomb” in Ekstasis
- “Advanced Falconry” in Calf Magazine
- “St John’s Kirkyard” in The Windhover
- “Ode to Paniskos” in An Outcast Age, eds. Clinton Collister and Dan Rattelle. Little Gidding Press.
- “In the Year of Our Lord” in Dappled Things
- “The Parsonage” in The Slumbering Host, eds. Clinton Collister and Dan Rattelle. Little Gidding Press.
