Writing on Nature & the Ecological Crisis
This week's interview features Estonian poet Ilmar Lehtpere discussing the complexities of translating poetry, particularly Kersti Merilaas' work. Ilmar emphasizes the moral obligation of translators to represent authors faithfully, while navigating cultural and linguistic differences. Ilmar highlights the importance of translating diverse voices to combat cultural homogenization and promote environmental awareness through literature.
Bu gormod o law eleni yng Nghymru! Yma, mae Hywel Griffiths yn trafod llifogydd, afonydd y Rhonddfa a thraddodiad o newyddiaduraeth amgylcheddol yng Nghymru. There's been too much rain in Wales! Here, in this Cymraeg/Welsh-language article, Hywel Griffiths discusses floods, the Rhondda's rivers, and a tradition of environmental reporting in Wales.
The interview explores Eartha Davis's poetic approach, particularly her work "sgeulachd na h-aibhne" (story of a river). Emphasizing the interconnectedness of humanity and the environment, Davis highlights the significance of Gaelic as a conduit for emotion and meaning. She encourages readers to engage deeply, uncovering narratives that unite humans and nature.
This is just a quick news flash. MODRON issue 5 is coming at the end of December. We can't wait to share it with you. In the meantime, we just want to share that the poets nominated this year for the Pushcart Prize are: https://videopress.com/v/PWOiM8cn?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&loop=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Abeer Ameer – At LeastCorinna Board – My uncle brings … Continue reading Meet the Pushcart Prize Nominees Featured in MODRON
Join Dame Siân Phillips and Welsh poets this Friday, December 6, 2024, at 6.30pm for a discussion inspired by Dafydd ap Gwilym's poem 'To the Snow'. The latest Modron issue is set to release soon, with ongoing prose submissions welcomed. Best wishes from the Modron team for a great month!
This week we meet Mike Jenkins who hails from Merthyr Tudful (Tydfil) and is a former editor of Poetry Wales. Mike has co-edited Red Poets magazine for 30 years, and is winner of many prizes, including Wales Book of the Year for short story collection Wanting to Belong (Seren). His latest books include - as editor - Yer Ower Voices (Culture Matters), the first ever anthology of dialect poetry from throughout Cymru, and Igh Sheriff o Merthyr (Carreg Gwalch), poems in Merthyr dialect.
This week we meet Cheryl Moskowitz, a poet, novelist and creative translator trained in psychodynamic counselling and dramatherapy. She writes for children and adults. She has authored two poetry collections, one novel and two poetry books for children. Formerly an actor and playwright, she facilitates creative projects in a wide variety of health and community settings including schools, prisons, refugee centres, and with the homeless. She was a co-founder of Lapidus, the national organisation for writing for wellbeing and taught on the ground-breaking Creative Writing & Personal Development MA from 1996–2010 at Sussex University. She is an editor at Magma and together with Alastair Gavin forms the poetry and electronic series, All Saints Sessions.
This week, we meet Jane Lovell lives in North Devon on the edge of the Valley of Rocks. Her work focuses on our relationship with the planet and its wildlife. She has recently won the Ginkgo and Rialto Nature & Place Poetry Prizes. Her new collection, On Earth, as it is, is published by Hazel Press.
For this week's interview, we meet L. Kiew, a chinese-malaysian living in London. L Kiew works as a charity sector leader and accountant. Her pamphlet The Unquiet was published by Offord Road Books in 2019. She was a 2019/2020 London Library Emerging Writer. L Kiew’s debut collection More than Weeds is published by Nine Arches Press (2023).
Interview by Glyn F. Edwards Sean Swallow's Author Photo Welcome back to our series on writing the #MoreThanHuman. We offer a set of interviews with poets and writers on how they approach writing about the environment. The more-than-human is a phrase that seeks to side-step traditional nature-culture dualisms and draw attention to the unity of … Continue reading More Than Human: A Poem and Interview with Sean Swallow
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