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Some Foot-notes from StAnza
Helen Boden (i) Descriptive Sketches, or A Stone Boulangerie Description: Juliana invited us, twenty StAnza attendees, to witness and accompany her ‘descriptive walk’.An invitation, too, to glisk: to glance, to glimpse, to look slowly – and look collectively.The route itself described a figure 6 from the front entrance of the Byre Theatre, sunwise back round…
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Poetics of Climate Change
John Bolland Jumping the railsIt seems odd that web-searches consistently identify Albert Einstein as the most influential individual of the 20th century. Relativity, the photoelectric effect and mass-energy equivalence don’t feel like topics of direct relevance to the person in the fields or on the street. But there he is, ahead of Hitler, Mandela, Stalin…
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Unwilding
After four collections of poems about landscapes, weather and plants, I suppose I have to think of myself as an eco-poet. I write about nature all the time, and I don’t intend to stop any time soon. I’m not entirely comfortable with it, however. Over the last few years, something has been building, apparently linked…
Ceasing Never
geopoetics, ecopoetics and the poetry of place
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