Writing on Nature & the Ecological Crisis
Interview by Glyn F. Edwards Lydia Harris's author photo. Welcome back to our series on writing the #MoreThanHuman, 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 all life … Continue reading More-Than-Human: A Poem and Interview From Lydia Harris
Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: A Memoir, Penguin: 2024. Hbk £16.99. Pbk £10.99. Ebook £6.99. The cover of Noreen Masud's A Flat Place featuring a flat beach landscape. As flatness offers respite to Noreen Masud, A Flat Place offers an antidote to the tropes and constructs that threaten to make some nature writing a slightly … Continue reading A Review of Noreen Masud’s A Flat Place by Glyn F. Edwards
This week's guest post from Rae Howells talks about the project "Art for the Common" organised to save part of Clyne Common from development. Her love for Clyne Common also inspired her new poetry collection This Common Uncommon. Also, in a note from the editors, please don't forget that Monday 9th September will see poetry … Continue reading A Community Article by Rae Howells: Can Art Save the Planet?
The submissions window for issue 5 of MODRON will be open from Tuesday 6th August to Monday September 9th. As ever, we welcome all poems that explore in any way our relationship with the natural world in this time of ecological crisis. MODRON is open to writers from all backgrounds. We do encourage submissions from … Continue reading MODRON ISSUE 5 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – RHIFYN 5 MODRON GALW AM GYFLWYNIADAU
Issue Four: Contents Editorial A Sequence of Poems and Images by John Kinsella: Out of the Forest Killzone and into the Corn Crop Ambush Two Poems about Foxes: Corinna Board, ‘My uncle brings back a fox tail from the fields’ & Amanda Rackstraw, ‘Vixen’ Two Poems for Gaza: Abeer Ameer, ‘At Least’ & Naomi Foyle, … Continue reading Modron Magazine Issue 4: Poems, Reviews, and Articles
Issue 4 So the Conservatives are gone, and their legacy is the wreckage of fourteen years of austerity: broken public services, food banks, anxiety, anger, rivers and seas full of sewage, shorter life expectancy. A triumphant Labour now form the government and must make dramatic changes to rebuild. But will they? Can they? The initial … Continue reading MODRON Issue 4: Editorial
Dyma lansiad cyffrous o fideo gan Iestyn Tyne. https://youtu.be/R_K7Nx3YsHQ Iestyn Tyne: Am Y Darn Dyma ddarn gyfansoddwyd mewn byr amser (drafft ydi o'n dal i fod, a dweud y gwir!) ar ein preswyliad yn Kovalam ar arfordir Kerala, lle cawson ni dreulio rhywfaint o amser yng nghwmni pysgotwyr lleol. Roeddem wedi gobeithio clywed ganddyn nhw … Continue reading BLOG GWADD Gan Iestyn Tyne
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
How might opera engage with ecological thinking? A guest post from Dylan Jenkins, introduces interbeing, a digital short from Music Theatre Wales, filmed on location in Swansea, London and Barbados. Please note: an English version of the post can be found below the Welsh. WATCH INTERBEING BELOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj_q1DHe21g interbeing - Archwilio Canfas Ein Planed Drwy … Continue reading Guest Post: interbeing: Exploring the Planet Through Opera / Archwilio’r Planed Drwy Opera
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
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