Listen in live on BBC Radio Wales this Friday 6th December 2024 at 6.30pm as Dame Siân Phillips joins poets from across Wales who respond to Dafydd ap Gwilym’s centuries-old poem ‘To the Snow’. The show includes some amazing poets from across Wales, including Alex Wharton, Connor Allen, Krystal Lowe, Tegwen Bruce Deans, and our very own Glyn Edwards, editor here at Modron.
Dafydd ap Gwilym is a very important Cymraeg/Welsh-language poet, one of the great poets of Europe in the Middle Ages, and much loved by many of our editors here on the team. The link to the show is here. We hope that you enjoy!
Meanwhile, we have made decisions on poems for our next issue of Modron, out at the end of this month. Some personal pressures have meant that we are still taking a while to write replies, but thank you to everyone who sent work. You make our job very hard!
Remember that we are always open to prose article submissions. See the guidelines below or go to our submissions page.
We are looking for articles between 750 and 1500 words, which have an ecological theme or are engaging with ecological crisis and/or climate emergency. Articles can deal with complex ideas but in an accessible way which can be understood by a large audience.
Types of articles might include:
- Interviews with writers who are engaging with ecological crisis, especially writers who belong to groups traditionally marginalized in nature writing e.g. people of the global majority, queer writers, disabled writers, working class writers, and neurodiverse writers.
- Book reviews with an ecological theme.
- Articles about community projects that use the arts and culture to engage the public with climate emergency, especially projects in Wales.
- Nonfiction reflecting on the environment in a way that foreground more-than-human concerns.
- Discussions on specific themes such as queer ecology, the more-than-human, other ways of regarding than world than Western ones, and theories of ecological justice.
It has been a strange year, and it seems that community organizing for ecological causes and more will be necessary in 2025. It can be hard work and it can dispiriting and demoralizing, but we have to keep trying. It is powerful work too as can be seen in Rae Howell’s account of the fight for Clyne Common in Swansea.
We’ll see you at the end of December. In the meantime have a great month!
Warmly,
Kristian, Zoe and the whole MODRON team
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