Everything change

  • Sledmere, M. (Speaker)
  • Cath Drake (Speaker)
  • Samuel Tongue (Speaker)

Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Public Events

Description

Our home is on fire and our houses unmade. When climate change is also (as Margaret Atwood puts it) ‘everything change’, how might poetry reckon with the far-reaching implications and existential contradictions of environmental crisis?

In this panel discussion, we ask what tools exist for poetry to retune our senses, coexist with multiple species, tell stories of deep time while envisioning resilient and resistant communities.

Our three poets will explore key strands into a climate-responsive poetics: elemental, collaborative, mindful, wild. With close attention to form and language, we discuss practical, ethical and poetic interventions in ecological thought.
Period24 Nov 2023
Event titlePush the Boat Out Festival
Event typeOther
LocationEdinburghShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • climate change
  • climate crisis
  • ecopoetry
  • nature
  • collaboration
  • element
  • coexistence
  • deep time
  • community
  • environment
  • poetics

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