Learn about fascinating ways of creating reflective and personal responses to the world around them while engaging with aspects of the current ecological crisis.

Artist-poet Caroline Bergvall will read from Drift (2014), a poetic work exploring a migrant tragedy at sea, while poet and cultural geographer Tim Cresswell will read of the plastic pollution articulated in his collection Plastiglomerate (2020). They will be accompanied by readings from Chia-Ying Chou, Teagan Dorsch, Kanza Leghari, and Hamish Muir exploring the visual and verbal poetics of islands, rivers and seas by participants of the site-writing module.

There will also be readings of ecopoetical writings with reference to shores, rivers, and other waters, co-hosted by Jane Rendell, Polly Gould and David Roberts, with a response from Jacqui Glass.