Writing on Nature & the Ecological Crisis
This interview features poet Hilary Watson discussing her creative process influenced by her interactions with insects. She addresses human perceptions of disgust and superiority over these creatures, emphasizing their collective nature. Watson explores the power of line breaks in poetry while advocating for a deeper understanding and appreciation of the more-than-human world.
This Earth Day, we have brought together films, interviews, poems, essays and, perhaps importantly, manifestos. When environmental protections are being rolled back, when the temperature is more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial era, when genocide continues without intervention, when wars rage around the globe weaponized by Western arms dealers, when people are deported to foreign prisons without trial, when those traditionally marginalized within our communities are targeted more than ever... —yes, it's time to declare our aims, motivations and intentions. It's a time for manifestos to imagine new ways of being in the world.
The interview explores Eartha Davis's poetic approach, particularly her work "sgeulachd na h-aibhne" (story of a river). Emphasizing the interconnectedness of humanity and the environment, Davis highlights the significance of Gaelic as a conduit for emotion and meaning. She encourages readers to engage deeply, uncovering narratives that unite humans and nature.
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
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!
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.
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
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
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