First apprenticed to drummers (Douglas & LaRose), Heslop (b. 1992) released a poetry debut hailed as "among the most promising poetic projects to come out of Canada in recent years" (Johnstone), a "sublime poetic debut" (Lockhart) "read with admiration" (Coetzee), "a gestalt of what it can assimilate" (Crymble) "bursting from the pages in an oceanic radicalization of empathy, grief and utter fucking joy in livingness and language" (Bennett) "no poetry lover should be without" (Paré).

     Heslop accepted scholarships from Western University to read Donne (Leonard), Shakespeare (Kidnie), the Romantics (Faflak), Stein et al. (Stanley), and theatre in performance (Watson), workingshopping poetry (Garber and Bassnett) published with the student literary journal and art criticism with the student paper. He appeared as Creon, Katherine Minola, and Saul Levi Mortera in student productions and as a question mark among visiting poets curated by publisher Karen Schindler. 

     Municipal, provincial, and federal arts councils granted Heslop the six-figure means to affect authorial credit for thirteen short films; two dozen poetry broadsides and four chapbooks; hundreds of thousands of words of dialogues, flash fiction, screenplay, stageplay, and art criticism published in print, on radio, and online; a fully funded creative arts event-series; three duo art shows; and prizes with The League of Canadian Poets, half a dozen journals, and some twenty film festivals around the world.

         Heslop lived in nine artist residencies on four continents during this period, recording three books of dialogue—The Writing on the Wind’s Wall: Dialogues about 'Medical Assistance in Dying'; and Craft, Consciousness: Dialogues about the Arts (Volumes One and Two), forthcoming in 2026, 2027, and 2028 with Guernica Editions (founded in 1978 in Montréal “to publish books that address social justice issues, discover and cultivate our innate humanity, and transcend individual cultures and nations”)—and a sophomore poetry collection, here lies the refugee breather who drank a bowl of elsewhere (Biblioasis, 2027).​​

       In 2025, Heslop made his home while in residence with Teat(r)o Oficina in São Paulo, practicing with Mateus Filellini of Rolling Jiu-Jitsu Academy, Mário Henrique of the Maharishi European Research University, and independent professor of philosophy and Brazilian literary history Dr. Marcelo Guimarães Lima. Heslop's current creative work includes a debut television series, Death Doctor (Astoria Pictures, 2026); a debut feature film (with Teat(r)o Oficina); research on a sophomore television series; and English-Danish translations of his ancestor, 'the father of the Danish lyric poem,' Ambrosius Stub.

        In harmony with his work in the arts, as a creative consultant and venture capitalist Heslop supports select companies driven insightfully to reduce suffering—like Revolve Surgical, which recently made its first sale for pioneering a minimally invasive surgical robotic device capable of mending the splitting spine of a foetus in utero.