Writing on Nature & the Ecological Crisis
Robert Minhinnick on the Gwent Levels Campaign "Reen on the Gwent Levels - geograph.org.uk - 2042561" by Gareth James is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Ten days before Christmas, 2023, I went with the poet Laura Wainwright to explore parts of the ‘Gwent Levels’, at Uskmouth. It was my first visit, although Laura is familiar … Continue reading A Feature on the Gwent Levels by Robert Minhinnick: The Reen
Interview by Glyn Edwards Welcome to our new series on writing #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 as a kind of shared commonwealth … Continue reading More-Than-Human: An Interview with Joe Wilkins
In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, Camille Dungy talks about developing particular and intimate relationships with place, adding "everyone with a vested interest in the direction the people on this planet take in relationship to others ... should ... take some time to plant life in the soil. Even when such planting … Continue reading Plots & Plants:The Pyrenees By Sophie Buchaillard
Interview by Glyn Edwards Welcome to our new series on writing #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 as a kind of shared commonwealth … Continue reading More-Than-Human: An Interview with Elizabeth Gibson
Sending a warm hello to all our readers. We are just writing with our recent news, and, most importantly, Sunday Dec/10/2023 sees the release of issue 3 of MODRON with some great work included. check out the contents of issue 3 From 12 noon (GMT), you'll be able to see all the new work coming … Continue reading MODRON Issue 3 GOES LIVE on sunday dec/10 & OTHER NEWS
Just a quick news flash. MODRON issue 3 is coming on Sunday 10th December! We will have poems on the theme of refuge and more. 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: Abeer Ameer, ‘The … Continue reading MODRON ISSUE 3 coming soon & 2023 Pushcart Prize Nominations
WRITING PROMPTS TO BENEFIT CHILDREN IN GAZA A month has passed since this campaign began, and it is still the case, as UNICEF reports in Gaza, that “hundreds of thousands of children and families are caught in a catastrophic situation”. One of the hardest jobs we had to do when making these posts was updating … Continue reading FINISHING A MONTH OF WRITING PROMPTS FOR CHILDREN IN GAZA
DAY 33: RHYS OWAIN WILLIAMS Making Use of the Useless A Note From the Author: I wrote the prompt below before we were shown via Israel’s regular shutting down of communication in Gaza (in October and November 2023) how the deprivation of access to the Internet can be a powerful tool of war. Rather than … Continue reading DAY 33: A PROMPT BY RHYS OWAIN WILLIAMS
WRITING PROMPTS TO BENEFIT CHILDREN IN GAZA UNICEF reports that in Gaza, “hundreds of thousands of children and families are caught in a catastrophic situation” and that, ongoing as of November 14th 2023, over 4200 children have been killed and more than 7000 have been injured “due to unrelenting attacks”, while over 1300 others are missing. Outlining the charity’s Appeal for … Continue reading DAY 32: A PROMPT BY LEAH UMANSKY
WRITING PROMPTS TO BENEFIT CHILDREN IN GAZA UNICEF reports that in Gaza, “hundreds of thousands of children and families are caught in a catastrophic situation” and that, ongoing as of November 14th 2023, over 4200 children have been killed and more than 7000 have been injured “due to unrelenting attacks”, while over 1300 others are missing. According to the World Health Organization, … Continue reading DAY 31: A PROMPT BY EMILY TRAHAIR
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