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
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A Community Article by Rae Howells: Can Art Save the Planet?
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?
MODRON ISSUE 5 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – RHIFYN 5 MODRON GALW AM GYFLWYNIADAU
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
MODRON Issue 4: Editorial
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
BLOG GWADD Gan Iestyn Tyne
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
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
NATURE POEM AND ECO-POEM: A BLOG POST BY KRISTIAN EVANS
Photo by Kristian Evans Is there a difference? According to the mechanical oracle at ChatGPT, there is. A nature poem, comes the reply, is concerned with celebrating the beauty and harmony of nature, is lyrical and contemplative, and seeks to evoke emotion in the reader. An ecopoem on the other hand, is concerned to draw … Continue reading NATURE POEM AND ECO-POEM: A BLOG POST BY KRISTIAN EVANS
FINISHING A MONTH OF WRITING PROMPTS FOR CHILDREN IN GAZA
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 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. Outlining the charity’s Appeal for … Continue reading DAY 32: A PROMPT BY LEAH UMANSKY
DAY 31: A PROMPT BY EMILY TRAHAIR
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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