On 26th October, eco-poet Helen Moore and kin’d & kin’d launched our new books, both collaborative works based on water residencies with the pioneering climate change arts organisation Cape Farewell. Our thanks to David Buckland and Lily Lloyd at CF and to all the folks, sheep, swans and other water creatures who accompanied us as […]
Our Cloak for Courage is on display at the RSA London until 20th September. See this article by Rachel Grice on the RSA website: https://www.thersa.org/fellowship/news/a-cloak-for-courage The Cloak is now looking for its next venue.
A Cloak for Courage in the Anthropocene – talk and writing workshop Do join us for our talk and writing workshop at the Royal Society of Arts House, London on Weds 11 September. You can book your free place below: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-cloak-for-courage-tickets-953170999117
‘Accord’ is a poem/sound-piece created by EcoBody, a collective of poets (Jemma Borg, Kim Lasky, Karen Smith, Kay Syrad and Clare Whistler) as a way to think differently about ecosystems coming together, human and non-human. Instead of working with the word compromise, we thought about finding accord – please listen to the work (below), kindly hosted by […]
As part of our studies at the New School of the Anthropocene this year, kin’d & kin’d have created (with designer Larch Rose) a Cloak for Courage. It is currently on display at the Royal Society of Arts in London (until the end of September). Details and link to a longer piece of writing about […]
Apart from studying at the New School of the Anthropocene 2023-4, in November kin’d & kin’d ran a day workshop focusing solely on visionary US poet Jorie Graham’s letter to the near future, To 2040 (Carcanet, 2023); and another workshop at the DIRT: Imaginarium at Anglia Ruskin University in April this year, called ‘Taking courage: […]
Greetings! kin’d & kin’d have been studying this academic year at the brilliant, experimental New School of the Anthropocene at the October Gallery in London, offering post-grad-level lectures and seminars from artists and activists as well as academics. https://www.nsota.org/intro
Seasonal greetings! Just to let you know that I have had some encouraging reviews of my latest collection What is near – by Paul Matthews in Tears in the Fence, Autumn 2022, for example: ‘Many a poetry book has been inspired by the beauty of nature, or its destruction. The writer of this one ‘trembles […]
A Society of Authors online event with poets Kay Syrad, Caleb Parkin, Katrina Porteous & Jacqueline Saphra. All welcome. Monday 14th November 2022, 10 – 11.30 am https://www2.societyofauthors.org/event/agm-week-industry-insider-poetry-in-this-time-of-eco-crisis/
at the beautiful RNLI building in Newhaven, as part of the Newhaven Festival. Please join us on Sunday 4th September at 3.00 – 5.00pm for an afternoon of reading, writing and conversation about local and global matters, followed by a free poetry performance from 5.30 – 6.30pm. All welcome ! Full details and tickets here: […]