Sending a warm hello to all our MODRON readers. We have a few news items to flag up. First MODRON's call for poetry submissions will be closing on Wednesday 8th May. You may also want to see this post asking, is there a difference between an ecopoem and a nature poem ? We have a … Continue reading MODRON NEWSLETTER MAY 2024: POETRY SUBS CLOSING, ECO-OPERA, AND A GIFT FROM THE POETRY SCHOOL
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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
MODRON ISSUE 4 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – RHIFYN 4 MODRON GALW AM GYFLWYNIADAU
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
More-than-human: A Poem and Interview From Jack houston
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
More-than-human: A Poem and Interview from Simon Maddrell
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
More-than-human: A Poem & Interview from Miranda Lynn Barnes
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
More-than-human: A poem and Interview from Suzanne Iuppa
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
A Feature on the Gwent Levels by Robert Minhinnick: The Reen
Robert Minhinnick on the Gwent Levels Campaign "Reen on the Gwent Levels - geograph.org.uk - 2042561" by Gareth James is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Ten days before Christmas, 2023, I went with the poet Laura Wainwright to explore parts of the ‘Gwent Levels’, at Uskmouth. It was my first visit, although Laura is familiar … Continue reading A Feature on the Gwent Levels by Robert Minhinnick: The Reen
More-Than-Human: An Interview with Joe Wilkins
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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