21st June, 6pm – Poetry & Food workshop with Colin Herd (The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow)
22nd June, 9:30am – Performing your research: a poets theatre workshop at SGSAH Summer School (The Studio, Glasgow)
23rd June, 7pm – Launch for An Aura of Plasma Around the Sun with Briony Hughes, Ivy Allsop and Isaac Harris (The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow)
2nd July, 4pm – Fundraiser for ‘Kindness Street Team’ with Pleasure Pool, Gabo, J. D. Twitch, Sofay, Leo Bussi, DJ Michael (Queen’s Park bandstand, Glasgow)
5th July, 7:30pm – Glasgow Review of Books (re)launch (The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow)
7th July, 9:45am – Somnolent Cartographies: The Sonic Ecologies of Sleep all-day workshop (Civic House, Glasgow)
Experimenting with Weather A workshop with me and Tawnya Selene Renelle
(Online and free)
Thursday February 17th
6-8:00pm (GMT) via Zoom
Join us for this free workshop. Maria Sledmere will be our guest as she gets you ready for her new course Writing the Everyday which will begin on February 24th.
We will be deep diving into all the ways we can experiment with weather and thinking about the ways that weather can shape both the content and structure of our writing. We will be thinking about the influence of weather and how something simple might be woven into experimental writing.
Suited to all genres, skill levels, and artists of any medium.
Ecopoetics and Postcapitalist Desire As part of Glasgow Goes Green Festival (QMU, University of Glasgow)
(in-person, 5pm on 23rd February)
In his 2012 essay, ‘Post-Capitalist Desire’ Mark Fisher recalls protestors at the Occupy London Stock Exchange critiqued in the press for having iPhones and buying Starbucks coffee. In many mainstream framings of environmental activism, to be ecological is to be solemnly ‘pure’ and somehow entirely free of the taint of consumerism’s impulse. How do questions of energy, desire and expression come into artistic and activist responses to the climate crisis? Can we complicate the binary of ascetism and pleasure when it comes to ecology? This workshop asks: what does it mean to be ecological in and beyond capitalist society? Looking at various works of contemporary poetry, we will locate ecological thought within complex expressions of excess, hedonism and despair; works which intersect ecology with queer joy and critiques of racialised capital; works which negotiate ecological politics and ethics within everyday life and its games of recognition.
After a short introduction to ecopoetics, we’ll read some poems (distributed as pdf handouts), explore writing activities and have discussion.
Open to anyone interested in reading and writing poetry.
Location: this workshop will take place in Committee Room 1 of the QMU. Enter through the front door of the building and take the stairs or the lift ahead to the third floor. A member of staff will be present to direct you to the workshop.
Please bring your own preferred writing materials.
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