UCD Environmental Humanities is delighted to present the launch event for 'Writing in the Pause', the latest issue of Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics. We will hear poetry readings from four contributors to the issue: Ian Davidson, Ghazal Mosadeq, James Thomas Stevens and Jonathan Skinner.

Thursday 25th February, 4pm

Speakers

Ian Davidson is a poet and a specialist in modern and contemporary poetry and poetics based in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. His recent and forthcoming poetry collections include On the Way to Work (Shearsman 2017), Gateshead and Back (Crater 2018), From a Council House in Connacht (Oystercatcher 2021), By Tiny Twisting Ways (Aquifer 2021) and The Matter of the Heart (New Dublin Writing 2021).

Ghazal Mosadeq is a poet and translator based in London. She is the founder of Pamenar Press, an independent cross-cultural, multi-lingual publisher based in UK, Canada and Iran. She has published three poetry collections, Dar Jame Ma (2010), Biographies (2015), and Supernatural Remedies for Fatal Seasickness (2018).

James Thomas Stevens, Aronhió:ta’s, (Akwesasne Mohawk) attended the Institute of American Indian Arts, Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and Brown University. Stevens is a 2000 Whiting Award recipient, has authored eight books of poetry including, Combing the Snakes from His Hair and A Bridge Dead in the Water. His next book, The Golden Book, is due out from SplitLevel Press in April, 2021. He is currently Chair of the undergraduate Creative Writing Department at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Jonathan Skinner is a poet, field recordist, editor, and critic, best known for founding the journal ecopoetics. His poetry collections and chapbooks include Chip Calls (Little Red Leaves, 2014), Birds of Tifft (BlazeVOX, 2011), Warblers (Albion Books, 2010), and Political Cactus Poems (Palm Press, 2005). He has published numerous essays at the intersection of poetry, ecology, activism, landscape and sound studies. Skinner teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

Registration

This talk will take place at 4pm Irish Standard Time, which translates to 11am Eastern Standard (US Time).Ticket sales will close at 12pm Dublin time on the day of the event. Links will be sent out twice, on Tuesday 23rd and Thursday 25th, two hours before the event.

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We gratefully acknowledge the support of UCD College of Arts and Humanities Funding for Research Activity for 2021.

Image: Peter Knight: photograph from Richmond, London allotment, 4 April 2020

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