This is just a quick news flash. MODRON issue 5 is coming at the end of December. 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: https://videopress.com/v/PWOiM8cn?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&loop=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Abeer Ameer – At LeastCorinna Board – My uncle brings … Continue reading Meet the Pushcart Prize Nominees Featured in MODRON
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Join Dame Siân Phillips and Poets for ‘To the Snow’ Live Event on BBC Radio Wales
Join Dame Siân Phillips and Welsh poets this Friday, December 6, 2024, at 6.30pm for a discussion inspired by Dafydd ap Gwilym's poem 'To the Snow'. The latest Modron issue is set to release soon, with ongoing prose submissions welcomed. Best wishes from the Modron team for a great month!
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
More-Than-Human: A Poem and Interview From Lydia Harris
Interview by Glyn F. Edwards Lydia Harris's author photo. Welcome back to 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 … Continue reading More-Than-Human: A Poem and Interview From Lydia Harris
A Review of Noreen Masud’s A Flat Place by Glyn F. Edwards
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
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
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