The More-Than-Human Perspective in Environmental Poetry: a poem and interview from mike jenkins

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.

More Than Human: A Poem and Interview from Cheryl Moskowitz

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.

More Than Human: A Poem and Interview from Jane Lovell

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.

More than Human: A Poem and Interview from L. Kiew

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).

More Than Human: A Poem and Interview with Sean Swallow

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

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

MODRON NEWSLETTER MAY 2024: POETRY SUBS CLOSING, ECO-OPERA, AND A GIFT FROM THE POETRY SCHOOL

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

Guest Post: interbeing: Exploring the Planet Through Opera / Archwilio’r Planed Drwy Opera

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

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