There is no simple way to say this: I am working on a long-form, creative non-fictional, tending auto-theoretical prose poem… Packing things into categories becomes difficult! It is often necessary to string together caveating words in an attempt to describe the genre in a world that requires boxes to be filled and summaries to be presented. This leads to my book (out now with Bloomsbury in hardback and e-book, and paperback mid 2025), which muses on and celebrates textual hybridity. The book brings together many of my interests and key moments of literary inspiration and inquiry. It particularly concerns working in the mutable/fertile/left-over spaces around the normative machines of artistic and literary categorisation, in the making of hybrid forms.
Today I am a writer, but the broader category of ‘artist’ is a more suitable framing telling a broader truth and being inclusive of the multiple forms of practice that interest me. I have spent many years wielding pencils, cameras, paint, paper, found objects, glue, and thread as well as computer keyboards and smart-phone notes—all in overlap. A hybrid approach is expansive, necessitating a well-honed intuition and a love of texture and non-linearity. As it turns out, it also requires considerable bravery. I work with ‘contradictory’ fragments as my interesting material, making interim solutions that veer near the appearance of completion at times, while heeding the underlying idea that everything is work-in-progress.
Tasha Haines PhD, Dip. TT, MFA, BFA
Tasha Haines 
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