Writing on Nature & the Ecological Crisis
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
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?
Issue Four: Contents Editorial A Sequence of Poems and Images by John Kinsella: Out of the Forest Killzone and into the Corn Crop Ambush Two Poems about Foxes: Corinna Board, ‘My uncle brings back a fox tail from the fields’ & Amanda Rackstraw, ‘Vixen’ Two Poems for Gaza: Abeer Ameer, ‘At Least’ & Naomi Foyle, … Continue reading Modron Magazine Issue 4: Poems, Reviews, and Articles
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
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