Issue 4:

Unquiet Press’ Fourth Issue features writing, art and interviews from Kyra Sky Foster, Astrid Davis, Molly No Mates, Rosie Mott, Dr Paul Taylor-McCartney, Robin Steve and Imogen Hero.

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Packed full of writing, artwork, poetry and design, this edition of Unquiet Press examines queer identities and cultural heritage within the contemporary folk revival. 

This month we’re providing many examples of how folk culture can offer us new modalities for approaching the world. We are travelling from the Black Country to St. Lucia, encountering many wonderful practitioners and customs along the way. We consider lost queer stories and new queer futures. We have poetry from the Irish countryside and microbial ecosystems from the Isle of Mull.

This summer, we particularly want to honour the contributions of queer and trans people to folk cultures past and present. After all, there’s nowt so queer as folk.

Kyra Sky Foster

Kyra-Sky (b. 2000, London) is an artist and writer. They obtained their BFA in 2022 from Oxford Brookes University; receiving the Fine Art Writing prize, and a solo show at Modern Art Oxford as part of the Platform Graduate Award. Kyra-Sky graduated with an MFA in 2024 from The Ruskin School of Art. Kyra-Sky explores themes of migration, folk-ritual and linguistics. working primarily with installation, film, and text to produce artefacts based on various traditions, beliefs or folk-tales from the Caribbean islands of St.Lucia and Grenada. Kyra-Sky’s experimental text titled My Grandmother’s Tongue: Language, Ritual and Connection with the Earth has been published in Art Review Oxford (2026).

Astrid Davis

I am a queer craftswoman working with heritage and traditional blacksmithing techniques. I use contemporary jewellery as an alternative form of political activism, amplifying the lived experiences of transgender women. I aim to bring people together and foster discussion and education in an ever changing and divided world.
My practice draws inspiration from medieval armour, exploring its protective qualities both physically and emotionally. I collaborate closely with my community to address the specific insecurities and vulnerabilities expressed by individuals experiencing gender dysphoria.

Molly-No-Mates

Molly No-Mates is Bristol’s premier queer, drag king Molly dancing team. They are a collective of folk musicians, morris dancers, and drag performers who wanted to create something that honoured those traditions while also expressing their personal and political queerness. They are working on finding the queerest folk songs out there, writing their own songs and dances, and queering the Morris in every way they can.

Rosie Mott

The Queer Morris Alliance is a cross-side collaborative effort to celebrate and increase the visibility of members of the queer morris community and the spaces they inhabit. We believe that fostering community develops strength beyond that of individuals; the whole really is greater than the sum of its parts. We know it is an ongoing task to establish and maintain safer spaces within the morris dancing community.

Dr Paul Taylor-McCartney

Dr Paul Taylor-McCartney is a writer, researcher and lecturer, living near Looe. His interests include dystopian literature, queer studies, children’s fiction and initial teacher education. His poetry, short fiction and academic articles have appeared in a wide range of print and electronic media, and fiction titles he has recently worked on as commissioning editor have won regional readers’ and publishers’ awards. His debut novel, Sisters of the Pentacle, was published by Hermitage Press in 2022, and his first non-fiction title, Cornwall Uncharted: Mapping Cornwall’s Queer History of Concealment, Culture and Creativity, by The History Press (June 2026), to great acclaim.

Robin Steve

Robin is a poet, researcher, and creative writing tutor based in Dublin, where they live with their beloved and Oscat Wild, the cat who decided to stay. Their work reaches towards the horizon of possibilities and kinship between the trans body and more-than-human nature and is inspired by folklore and the gothic. Robin grew up in the city but always longed (and still longs) for the woods.

Imogen Hero

Imogen Hero is a bio-photographic artist based in Glasgow. Her work explores scientific themes focusing on the nonhuman, engaging with this to challenge anthropocentric perspectives which often dominate our understanding of reality. 
She has developed a unique cross-species collaborative photographic process through cultivating bacteria and fungi onto the analogue film emulsion, leaving their trace on the photographic image. This methodology challenges traditional boundaries and celebrates the agency of the nonhuman.

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