🌞This beautiful hazel structure outside the College is the result of a final project of our MA Arts & Ecology student Flick Ferdinando and it looked great in this morning’s sunshine! If you are passing by any time soon take a moment to go in and see how you respond to it…

Will be attending this as first event as PL editor - do come say hello.

Looking for some poetry inspiration?

We're teaming up with People Need Nature
and poet Polly Atkin to challenge you to write about how sound shapes our relationship with nature. Think dawn choruses, rustling leaves, and more...

Enter by 3 May: bit.ly/YPNSongworlds

HUGE congratulations to our brilliant friend & tutor Anna Selby🎉

Anna Selby is commended the National Poetry Competition 2023 for her poem ‘Liberty Caps’.

Anna is a poet, intersectional environmentalist and naturalist. Her chapbook, Field Notes, was an LRB Bookshop’s Bestseller for two years running.

Read more: poetrysociety.org.uk/npc

This Saturday Right to Roam will head to Vixen Tor on Dartmoor to highlight the fragmented nature of our current access model - by visiting an 'access island':
Land on which we have a right to roam, but have no lawful way to reach...

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/f…

An 'access island' is a place where the public has the right to roam - but has to trespass to get there. Absurd!

There's at least 2,500 access islands in England, research by the great Lewis Winks Right to Roam has found. Time for a new Right to Roam Act
bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Looking for poets / poems / writers work that contains a felt presence - of the body &/or location.. that explores the present (writing) moment in some way… any ideas?

At the moment I am thinking Anna Selby ‘s ‘Field notes’ and Legna Rodríguez Iglesias

Dust Poetry Magazine Sharing this one from my favourites folder by Anna Selby. (First read in a wonderful Laurie Bolger workshop.) 🤍❄️

Thrilled to announce my first children's book—with illustrator Elaine Chen ☘️—will be out in February. Take a first look at A Garden Called Home on CBC Books now. cbc.ca/books/canada-r…

#Book10 In the Wake by Christina Sharpe. 'I want to think about what these images call forth. And I want to think through what they call on us to do, think, feel in the wake of slavery--which is to say, in an ongoing present of subjection and resistance.' #WomensHistoryMonth

And the winners of the 2024 Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award are...

🎉 Alia Trabucco Zerán
🎉 hannahlowepoet

Discover more hayfestival.com/eccles-centre-…

Thrilled to receive Four Nations funding with colleagues Alycia Pirmohamed nina 明雅 Pratyusha to explore collaboration and co-authorship in nature writing. 🩷🍃💜🌲

The programme for the FREE The BSLS online symposium 'Imagining Queer Ecologies' is now live and it looks 🔥🔥🔥 I'll be speaking on a roundtable in the afternoon: eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagining-qu…

& if this was a 'Wildlife Conservation Area' why were plastics being burned in it?

A discarded pheasant feed bag read: 'animals must not be slaughtered for human consumption during treatment... contains genetically modified organisms' (referring to the GM soya) Wild Justice

Today South Devon Right to Roam group returned to the Duke of Somerset's Berry Pomeroy estate, scene of a previous mass trespass. The pheasant shoot was in much evidence, with many carcasses (boosting carrion) & plastic shooting litter everywhere. Custodians of the countryside!

The University of California Press is publishing a #new #journal on animal history. The inaugural issue is scheduled to be published in 2025 and currently has a call for papers out.

More information on their website here: online.ucpress.edu/ah

#rccnews #cfp #animalhistory

So excited for the new series on 'Queer and Trans* Ecologies in Literature and Culture' that I'm putting together for the Arcadiana: Literature, Culture and the Environment Blog.

Check out the CfP and do get in touch with any questions or ideas you'd like to discuss🦠🐛🪼

coming up this Thursday in London ~ I'll be talking about Literatures of Degrowth with this panel of legends 🌱

Announcement 📣 🥳

We’re launching our 2024 Artist Development Programmes!

We’re bringing back 4 programmes for disabled creatives: emerging writers, fresh performers, experienced creators & company innovators. 💰 £600-£6000.

Apply NOW - 5 Jan 24

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