“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.”
“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
Books
- A Woodland Lexicon. Little Gidding Press, 2025.
- Rewilding. Manuscript.
- Plains of Moab. In process.
Selected Poems
- “Accidental” in The Journal
- Three Poems in Prism Review
- “Egret Rising” in Elemental: Water (Worple Press, 2026)
- “Lessons in Gyotaku” in The Bangalore Review
- “Elegy for Sijctghen, A Good Duck” in Duck
- “Fish Crows at Holly’s End” in Blue Unicorn
- “St John’s Kirkyard” in The Windhover
- “A Prescribed Fire” in Exacting Clam
- “In the Year of Our Lord” in Dappled Things
- “The Parsonage” in The Slumbering Host (Little Gidding Press, 2021)
- Two poems in Ad Fontes
