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Wed, Aug 10, 2022 7:00 PM EDT (-04:00)
The Climate of Change poetry reading, featuring Karen McCarthy Woolf
by Cath Drake
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Location
Online event
Feature reader, Karen McCarthy Woolf, joins poets from across UK & Europe reading their poems from The Climate of Change Poetry Challenge
About this event
As Margaret Atwood says: ' I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it everything change. '
Time is running out. We need more healthy, creative and sustainable visions of our world, to look more deeply at our place in the world in this time of climate and environmental crisis. We must also care for ourselves and others, and envisage a more just world.
We'll share a myriad of new ways into writing about the climate and ecological crisis as we celebrate a month of writing together for the Climate of Change Poetry Challenge.
Feature reader, Karen McCarthy Woolf and a selection of poets from across UK & Europe will read their poems from The Climate of Change Poetry Challenge (workshop participants). Poets have been working together during period of sustained creativity in June & July.
Karen is one of the most respected UK contemporary poets writing about the climate and ecological emergency.
About the feature reader, Karen McCarthy Woolf : Born in London to English and Jamaican parents, Karen McCarthy Woolf’s first poetry collection An Aviary of Small Birds was nominated for the Forward Felix Dennis and Jerwood Prizes and her latest Seasonal Disturbances was a winner in the inaugural Laurel Prize and focused on climate change. In 2019 she moved was a Fulbright postdoctoral scholar and Writer in Residence at the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA exploring the relationship between poetry and law. 2021 took her to Brazil, as an artist in residence at the Sacatar Institute in Bahia writing new work that explores sugar and its cultural and material legacies.
Other poets include Cath Drake, Kate Potts, Tamsin Hopkins, Claire Collison, Helen Bailey, Tucge Tekhanli, Richard Williams, Gabrielle O'Donovan, Ali Walters, Miriam Otto, Melinda Appleby, Piers Haben, Jill Burdall.
7pm UK time (BST)Approximately 1 hour and 15minutes long on Zoom.
The event will be recorded.
The Climate of Change Poetry Challenge, workshops and readings are supported by The Emergence Foundation.
More Events on Cath Drake's The Verandah Lots or workshops, masterclasses and events coming up!
To climb these coming crests / one word to you, to / you and your children: / stay together / learn the flowers / go light extract from 'For the Children‘ by Gary Snyder
