#MoreThanHuman: An Interview Series on Writing About the Environment
2024
In #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 all life as a kind of shared commonwealth existing on a fragile planet. It also reminds us humans that there is more to life, that there is more world, than the human. It relocates us in relation to the mystery.
#PlotsAndPlants: An Interview Series on Unique and Cherished Places
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 isn’t easy.” This series of posts #Plots&Plants offers a chance for writers and environmentalists to talk about places and plots to which they are particularly attached or invested in. #Plots&Plants will act as an archive and record of places which we will later be able to reflect on as we continue to experience environmental emergency and loss.
Featured writers: Sophie Buchaillard on the Pyrenees, George Colkitto on the River Aln in Northumberland, and Rhiannon Fielder Hobbs on Talyllychau.
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