Participants will be guided through a range of ecopoems and writing prompts to explore how poetry can be used for ecological causes!
About this Event

(Information regarding joining: Participants will be emailed the Zoom link a day before the workshop.)

Ecopoetry and Activism:
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).

Please contact [email protected] in case you have any questions.

The Climatopia Project

The Climatopia Project aims to use the power of writing to raise awareness, ignite hope, and contribute in a meaningful way to the climate change movement. Climatopia has launched three online campaigns (Your Climate Story, Climate Action of the Day, and Project ReStory) and has several climate-related resources on the website . We also organise events and workshops and are open to publishing pieces written by young people up to the age of 25.

The Climatopia Project was started by Rucha Virmani.

See you there!