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.
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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 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 Magazine Issue 4: Poems, Reviews, and Articles
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
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