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). CV.

  An autodidact, Heslop accepted scholarships from Western University® to read Donne (Leonard), Shakespeare (Kidnie), the Romantics (Faflak), Stein et al. (Stanley), and performance (Watson), contributing poetry to the student literary journal, film criticism to the student paper, interviews with visiting poets to the student radio station, and performances as Creon, Katherine Minola, and Saul Levi Mortera before dropping out of school to resume his education.

     Municipal, provincial, and federal arts councils granted Heslop the six-figure means to affect authorial credit for a wide variety of artistic work created by hundreds of people, including thirteen short films; two dozen poetry broadsides and four chapbooks; dialogues, fiction, screenplay, and art criticism 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 and some twenty film festivals around the world.

        Heslop lived in nine artist residencies on four continents during this period, recording a sophomore poetry collection, here lies the refugee breather who drank a bowl of elsewhere (Biblioasis, 2027), and 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”).​​

       In 2025, Heslop made his home while in residence with Teat(r)o Oficina in São Paulo, practicing BJJ with Mateus Filellini of Rolling Jiu-Jitsu Academy, TM with Mário Henrique of the Maharishi European Research University, and Freirian dialectics with professor Dr. Marcelo Guimarães Lima. He returned to Canada for TIFF, a national book tour, and location scouting his debut television series.

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

     As a life-long volunteer and community-builder with a five-year term funding and co-organizing his hometown's open mic and an eight-year term as a Board Director with the non-profit Changing Ways behind him, Heslop is currently a member of the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations, the Documentary Organization of Canada, the League of Canadian Poets, MediaNB, the New Brunswick Filmmakers' Co-operative, SEIZE, and the Writers' Union of Canada.