Writing on Nature & the Ecological Crisis
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
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
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
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
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
Interview by Glyn 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 a … Continue reading More-than-human: An Interview with Lisa Kelly
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
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
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 … Continue reading Plots & Plants:The Pyrenees By Sophie Buchaillard
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 Elizabeth Gibson
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