Copies of this beautiful compendium of Chris’s work over the last 45 years still available at https://chrisdrury.co.uk/product/chris-drury-heart-soul-mind/

Cinnamon Press :: small miracles from distinctive voices Please join me for the launch of my fourth poetry collection, yellow noon-day  at Kemptown Bookshop, Brighton, Wednesday 10 September, 7.00pm – 9.00pm 91 St. George’s Road, Brighton BN2 1EE With readings also by Nigel Hutchinson and Lizzie Fincham: PLEASE RSVP to kaysyrad@chrisdrury.co.uk by 1st September

Congratulations to Sharon Black and Ion Corcos who won First and Second Prize in the Kent & Sussex Open Competition 2025. My poem was awarded third prize:

en-Couraging kin – a talk and writing workshop Tues 21 Jan, 6pm Please join us for us for this talk about how we conceived of and created a Cloak of Courage in the Anthropocene, followed by a writing workshop. The Cloak (in two parts) was created by kin’d & kin’d with designer Larch Rose and […]

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: […]