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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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
MODRON Issue 4: Editorial
Issue 4 So the Conservatives are gone, and their legacy is the wreckage of fourteen years of austerity: broken public services, food banks, anxiety, anger, rivers and seas full of sewage, shorter life expectancy. A triumphant Labour now form the government and must make dramatic changes to rebuild. But will they? Can they? The initial … Continue reading MODRON Issue 4: Editorial
BLOG GWADD Gan Iestyn Tyne
Dyma lansiad cyffrous o fideo gan Iestyn Tyne. https://youtu.be/R_K7Nx3YsHQ Iestyn Tyne: Am Y Darn Dyma ddarn gyfansoddwyd mewn byr amser (drafft ydi o'n dal i fod, a dweud y gwir!) ar ein preswyliad yn Kovalam ar arfordir Kerala, lle cawson ni dreulio rhywfaint o amser yng nghwmni pysgotwyr lleol. Roeddem wedi gobeithio clywed ganddyn nhw … Continue reading BLOG GWADD Gan Iestyn Tyne
MODRON NEWSLETTER MAY 2024: POETRY SUBS CLOSING, ECO-OPERA, AND A GIFT FROM THE POETRY SCHOOL
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
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
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
Plots & Plants: Rhiannon Fielder Hobbs on Talyllychau
In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden, Camille Dungy talks about developing particular and intimate relationships with place, adding “everyone with a vested interest in the direction the people on this planet take in relationship to others … should … take some time to plant life in the soil. Even when such planting isn’t … Continue reading Plots & Plants: Rhiannon Fielder Hobbs on Talyllychau
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