Seedings: two eco-poets explore the more-than-human

The living world is under threat as never before. How might poets respond to ecological crisis? In this reading and discussion, three leading poets who engage closely with the natural world will explore how we connect with the more-than-human; and how our relationships with the plant-life and creatures around us offers a means of exploring our own humanity.

Please email Sarah James/Leavesley on lifeislikeacherrytree@yahoo.com with your name and email address by June 8th to register for this free event. The zoom link will be sent out the morning of the event.

Sarah James/Leavesley is a prize-winning poet, fiction writer, journalist and photographer, who loves walking outdoors. Eight out of nine of Sarah’s solo poetry titles have won or been shortlisted/highly commended for awards, including her eco-inspired RAIN FALLING (Wigtown Festival Company, 2023), which won the Wigtown Poetry Prize Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize 2022. Her CP Aware Award Prize for Poetry 2021 collection Blood Sugar, Sex, Magic (Verve Poetry Press, 2022) was highly commended in the Forward Prize. Website: www.sarah-james.co.uk.

Sarah Westcott has published two collections with Pavilion Poetry – Slant Light, and Bloom – which was shortlisted for the Ledbury prize for best second collections in 2023. Her debut pamphlet was a PBS choice and her second pamphlet, Pond, is published this year. Sarah was a news journalist for twenty years and now works as a freelance writer, tutor and editor. She is researching an AHRC-funded PhD in inter-species poetics.