This workshop explores nature writing from a range of interconnected perspectives, linking the disabled body, ecopoetics, and the intimate connection between humans and the rest of the natural environment.

Taking work primarily from writers of colour and disabled writers, we will explore a range of approaches to writing about nature, before going on to engage creatively with these themes through discussions, exercises and play.

After a short break, we will take a gentle wander around the area, identifying and engaging with nature in the urban environment and consider ecopoetics, the climate crisis, and explore the methods and responsibilities poetry has in responding to this.

At the end of the workshop, having produced several different written excerpts, we will consider the meaning of copying them onto plantable paper, and how this can demonstrate a nourishment from the ephemerality of poetry in a different form. The workshop is designed for writers of all levels – no experience of the forms, poets and topics will be required, and all attendees who have pre-registered will be given access to a pack containing the works we are engaging with.

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