[12] Burnett was named in the 10th Anniversary Shortlist for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize, for her book of poetry, nature-writing, and memoire, Twelve Words for Moss.
[12] Both books are concerned with the environment and activism, and Burnett is interested in how 'poetry can raise consciousness by bringing the effects of climate change or pollution to life'.
[1] 'Swims' documents experiences of wild swimming across the England and Wales,[14] and was featured as a Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year in 2017.
[4] Her PhD thesis was published as A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities: The Gift, the Wager, and Poethics (2017) by Palgrave Macmillan.
[18] In 2021, Burnett was commissioned by the National Trust to create a poem responding to nature observations made by members of the public.