Earth Day 2025: Video, Poetry and Prose Special

This Earth Day, we have brought together films, interviews, poems, essays and, perhaps importantly, manifestos. When environmental protections are being rolled back, when the temperature is more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial era, when genocide continues without intervention, when wars rage around the globe weaponized by Western arms dealers, when people are deported to foreign prisons without trial, when those traditionally marginalized within our communities are targeted more than ever... —yes, it's time to declare our aims, motivations and intentions. It's a time for manifestos to imagine new ways of being in the world.

A shot from above of Kenfig Dunes

Earth Day 2025: A New Film by Modron & Coal Poet

For Earth Day 2025, a film titled The Dunes, funded by the Books Council of Wales, is here released. It follows a neurodivergent teenager seeking refuge in the neglected dunes of Glamorgan. The film explores the connection between place and identity amidst societal challenges, highlighting themes of belonging and ecological crisis.

MODRON NEWSLETTER MAY 2024: POETRY SUBS CLOSING, ECO-OPERA, AND A GIFT FROM THE POETRY SCHOOL

Sending a warm hello to all our MODRON readers. We have a few news items to flag up. First MODRON's call for poetry submissions will be closing on Wednesday 8th May. You may also want to see this post asking, is there a difference between an ecopoem and a nature poem ? We have a … Continue reading MODRON NEWSLETTER MAY 2024: POETRY SUBS CLOSING, ECO-OPERA, AND A GIFT FROM THE POETRY SCHOOL

Earth Day 2024: Poems from the Poetry School

The Poetry School course ‘Revisiting the Romantics During Global Heating’ connected poets from around the world - America, Australia, New Zealand, the UK - and encouraged responses to fortnightly stimuli. By seeking to transpose the Romantic gaze and the sublime onto modern concerns, the course considered the poets central to The Romantic Era and worked … Continue reading Earth Day 2024: Poems from the Poetry School