[2][15] In 2022–23, she became the Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, undertaking a project that explored the role of cuteness in environmental culture.
[29] Writing about it for The Telegraph, Tristram Fane Saunders noted that few "young poets examine flora and fauna with a sharper eye than Isabel Galleymore.
[34] Poems in the collection, called "grounded in nature, earth, science and familiar human experience"[17] and considered "love songs to a much wider range of companion species", including such organisms as the slipper limpet, the drill-tongued whelk, and others, have been praised for "imagistic lyrics",[35] and for moving between "the brutal tedium of reality" and "an evocative dreamscape full of magic and metamorphosis".
[36][37] Saunders suggests "Galleymore might be the first to probe the sex life of the slipper limpet", calling "a sequence of irregular sonnets about spineless sea-creatures" the "highlight" of Significant Other.
[42] Poet Billie Manning said that "Galleymore zooms right in on the [minute] details (a slug, a doll, a certain cartoon mouse)" in the book to move towards exploring "the big[ger] stuff: environmental care, late capitalism, the decision to have children.
"[4] Generally lauded for its exploration of cuteness and approach to ecopoetry, and noted as "a poetry highlight of the year",[46] a review suggests that the topics in the book "could be made more 'universal' and relatable".
[47] Writing about Baby Schema for LitHub after its US publication, the poet and critic Christopher Spaide called Galleymore "a whiz at changing scales".
Its publication was supported by Royal Holloway's Humanities and Arts Research Institute and the Animal Studies reading group at the University of Birmingham.