ecopoetry Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/ecopoetry/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:24:24 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://i0.wp.com/writersrebel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/index-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 ecopoetry Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/ecopoetry/ 32 32 184391167 On the Fossil Free Books ControversyToby Litt https://writersrebel.com/on-fossil-free-books/ Thu, 06 Jun 2024 10:18:12 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=6022   A couple of days ago, our editor Toby Litt published a poem on his Substack, A Writer’s Diary. It was a response to criticisms of the Fossil Free Books campaign. Since then, the controversy over Fossil Free Books has become even more divisive. Many but definitely not all of the members of Writers Rebel [...]

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In Memory of Snow, February 2040John Barron https://writersrebel.com/in-memory-of-snow-february-2040/ Thu, 23 Nov 2023 10:24:02 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5762   1st Snow was a kind of hand-wringing heat; mine burned psychedelic red with it. Where your footsteps trod, it cast blue shadows like a methane fire. Crystals, so many I couldn’t get the maths straight in my head, falling feathery, light … FeatherLite, my nan’s eiderdown, all put away now inside some cupboard. We [...]

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Q&A with Vik SharmaToby Litt https://writersrebel.com/qa-with-vik-sharma/ Thu, 02 Feb 2023 08:00:38 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5281   How did the collaboration between you and Ruth Padel on 24 Splashes of Denial come about? The Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was the beginning. Its release was shocking and psychically disturbing for many of us. Inaction felt like a betrayal of everything I loved, believed in, [...]

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The Two UnseensBrandon Ra Pestano https://writersrebel.com/the-two-unseens/ Thu, 02 Feb 2023 08:00:29 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5265     Brandon Ra Pestano is a 26 year old poet of mixed Guyanese and English heritage from Brighton, England. He has represented the South of England in spoken word at the National Portrait Gallery, as well as performing his poetry at Greenwich West Gallery and having a short poetry film exhibited at the Institute [...]

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The Month of Emergencies – poemRebecca Faulkner https://writersrebel.com/the-month-of-emergencies/ Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:00:31 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=3901   7.9 inches of rain fell in Central Park last night dead cicadas on the crosswalk   their bodies bunched   in brittle knots         sticky candy sky bright with grief      branches submerged   by the weight     of our silence     a letter unread a door closed firmly       & [...]

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Duino – poemPatrick Mackie https://writersrebel.com/duino/ Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:00:27 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=4004   Whether you can get there from here or wherever depends on whether you are there already, on whether you will find that you are already standing amidst the outspread hands of its stones, and their misty grey dawns,  on whether indeed the arcs and folds of that sky really can make all location moot [...]

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Diver Overview – PoemSebastian Schloessingk https://writersrebel.com/diver-overview-poem/ Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:00:00 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=3986   The Great Barrier Reef diver/cameraman ‘cried in my mask’, to see the bleaching. Mankind is beginning to take creaky  baby steps towards being able to live forever. Just when there’s no more   forever to live in. There is a shock that sidles from the phrase ‘humans were rare,’ as applied to time in [...]

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The Names of TreesKillian Faith-Kelly https://writersrebel.com/the-names-of-trees/ Thu, 27 May 2021 08:00:54 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=2900   The Names of Trees   I   I should know the names of trees and birds, and where to find them. I should have this, poised to give, to any who might need it.   Dirt should sit, be lodged, tattooed, beneath my fingernails. And I should know its feel, and warmth, and temperament [...]

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Threading Our WayCeó Ruaírc https://writersrebel.com/threading-our-way/ Thu, 27 May 2021 08:00:35 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=2902   Threading Our Way    Peace River territory   The Peace purls a ripple stitch across the Rockies    down through fertile valleys   air shimmers in waves    over the hot road to Hudson’s Hope   glistening fish hide in hollows    fishers patient hopeful   on the farm Grandma weaves    a sheaf of wheat into wreathes   [...]

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