Scott Thurston's most recent book is Turning: Selected Poems 1995-2020 (Shearsman, 2023). Since 2004, he has been developing a practice integrating dance and poetry called kinepoetics, which has seen him training and working with professional dancers in the UK and overseas. In 2014 he co-founded the Arts for the Blues project, developing a new creative group psychotherapy for depression. Scott is a person-centred counsellor and Chair in Poetry and Innovative Creative Practice at the University of Salford.