Poetry readingTuesday 19th September –Linda Black & Kay SyradKent & Sussex Poetry Society at the Vittle & Swig, Tunbridge Wells, 7.45pm + open mic.

Greetings —Alas, but inevitably, kin’d & kin’d have had to cancel our Knepp Wildland course, ‘Connections’ but we have replaced it with a correspondence course ‘connections while solituding’ – which has already sold out – such is the need for connecting by all means possible at this extraordinary and uncertain time of Covid-19. We will […]

Please join us for our second eco-poetry writing course at the pioneering and beautiful Knepp Wildland near Horsham, West Sussex. This 6 week course will start on Saturday, 2nd May with a Walking Safari led by one of Knepp’s expert ecologists, and will continue on Wednesday evenings, with exciting individual and collaborative writing exercises both […]

Last year, my collaborator Clare Whistler and I ran a number of eco-poetry workshops, at ONCA environmental and social justice space and gallery, Brighton; at the now famous rewilded estate, Knepp Wildland in West Sussex; and at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in Suffolk. We also had a residency at White House Farm, Great Glenham, Suffolk, […]

Vert Instituteforart events and writing Vert Institute, established in 2015, operates from our house and studio on the edge of Vert Wood near the village of Laughton. The aim of the Institute is to offer unusual and stimulating art and writing events and workshops based on the creative ideas and experience of poet-novelist Kay Syrad […]

FABRIC-ATION: Slip back to source: a journey of natural materials. Please join me and Clare Whistler for our new 6-week eco-poetry course at the environmental and social justice space, ONCA, starting on Tuesday 24 September: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecopoetry-course-changing-everything-carefully-3-tickets-66650217595

with our ecopoetry course at Knepp Wildland starting on 1st Junehttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/ecopoetry-course-changing-everything-carefully-tickets-55768639502

Clare Whistler and I are running another series of eco-poetics workshops at the pioneering re-wilded estate, Knepp Wildland, in West Sussex, starting on 1st June (you may have seen the book about the estate, WILDING, by Isabella Tree, which was published last year). Please see the Eventbrite link below where you can see further details […]

ECO-POETICS – book launch at ONCA Tuesday 12th February 6.30pm. Please join us. https://onca.org.uk/event/poemish-other-languages/ Our next ECO-POETICS course is at Knepp Wildland in June – sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/changing-everything-carefully

Greetings – I wanted to let you know that my new Cinnamon Press poetry collection will be launched on Wednesday 24th October upstairs at the Elephant & Castle, Lewes (7.00 for 7.30pm; free) together with the launch of two great books, The Missing List, a memoir by Clare Best, and stories and a novella by […]