Writing on Nature & the Ecological Crisis
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
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
Photograph by Kristian Evans The submissions window for issue 4 of MODRON will be open from Thursday 11th April to Wednesday 8th May. As ever, we welcome all poems that explore in any way our relationship with the natural world in this time of ecological crisis. This is an open call, but we remain particularly … Continue reading MODRON ISSUE 4 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – RHIFYN 4 MODRON GALW AM GYFLWYNIADAU
Interview by Glyn F. Edwards Jack Houston stands against a blue wall with the scribbled words "well look who it is" and a graffitied face. Welcome to a new interview in 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 … Continue reading More-than-human: A Poem and Interview From Jack houston
Interview by Glyn F. Edwards Simon Maddrell stands at a mic wearing beads and a dark T-shirt with a graphic design. Welcome to a new interview in 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 … Continue reading More-than-human: A Poem and Interview from Simon Maddrell
Interview by Glyn F. Edwards Welcome to a new interview in 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 as … Continue reading More-than-human: A Poem & Interview from Miranda Lynn Barnes
Interview by Glyn F. Edwards Suzanne Iuppa stands in a hilly landscape with a grey, cloudy backdrop, wearing a bright blue coat with wind-blown hair. Welcome to a new interview in 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 … Continue reading More-than-human: A poem and Interview from Suzanne Iuppa
Interview by Glyn Edwards Welcome to a new interview in 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 as a … Continue reading More-than-human: An Interview with Lisa Kelly
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
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