Tag: ecopoetics

Panel: Approaches to Eco-translation

Back in the wild/world! All welcome to Approaches to Eco-translation, an IRL event 5-7pm, 25 November 2021, University of Warwick (+ live stream), hosted by Jonathan Skinner. Very excited to hear talks by Jennifer Scappetone & Zoë Skoulding. I’ll be talking about why flies are a bit like guerrilla fighters, more-than-human liberation, Nicanor Parra….

Translating environments (ecopoetry translation workshop for Being Human Festival)

Translating environments What are the environments of translation? That question has been rattling around in my head, in some form or another, at least since reading the poet Cecilia Vicuña’s statement, in an interview with Jonathan Skinner for his journal ecopoetics: ‘poetry is life’s reserve, a forest for the renewal of language, a biodiversity of… Continue reading Translating environments (ecopoetry translation workshop for Being Human Festival)

ASLE-UKI & Land2 2017 (3): Electric Arc Furnace ecopoetry special edition

Electric Arc Furnace #4: ecopoetry special edition 7-9pm Bank Street Arts Free entry, all welcome [poster design: Leire Barrera Medrano] With ASLE-UKI & Land2, & part of the evening event programme for the conference, Cross Multi Inter Trans.  Electric Arc Furnace is a poetry readings series based in the centre of Sheffield, between the seven… Continue reading ASLE-UKI & Land2 2017 (3): Electric Arc Furnace ecopoetry special edition

‘Peak Time’ in Epizootics! Issue 1

A recent poem, ‘Peak Time’, was included in Epizootics! Issue 1, an excellent new ‘Online Journal for the Contemporary Animal’ concerned with ‘the anthropocene, the post-human, the ecocritical, the phenomenological, the spatial, the philosophical, the contemporary and the migratory.’ Read the full issue here: epizootics-issue-1 Also a good opportunity to listen to Scott Walker’s ‘Epizootics’: