Date: 6th January, 2025
Time: 9:30 am to 11am UK time
Venue: Zoom/Google meet (online)
Theme: Ecopoetry and Activism
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Come and explore environmental poetry with an activist slant! In this generative workshop, we’ll be reading examples of poetry from classics by Seamus Heaney to urgent voices such as Sudeep Sen and Karen McCarthy Woolf. Come and explore how poetry can be used for ecological causes, from raising funds for conservation to protest movements, and what Karen McCarthy Woolf terms ‘activism of the heart.’ We’ll be writing our own poetry, exploring aesthetics and activism, and thinking about creative ways to get our poetic messages out into the world.
This workshop will be facilitated by Dr Yvonne Reddick.
Yvonne Reddick is the author of Burning Season (Bloodaxe, 2023), which won the Laurel Prize for Best UK Collection of Ecopoetry. Her other books are Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet (Palgrave, 2017) and Anthropocene Poetry (Palgrave, 2023). With the filmmaker Aleks Domanski, she made the documentary Searching for Snow Hares (2023).
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Rucha at The Climatopia Project
P.S. Thank you to all those who have signed up so far! You will receive the meeting link a day or two before the workshop. Stay tuned!
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