"Put your ear to the ground & listen to the sound of your ancestors
Turning in their humble graves..."
Acclaimed poetry press Bloodaxe Books has Dis Poetry, selected poems and lyrics by the much-missed Benjamin Zephaniah, just out
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« My bedsit is modest, my world is changing—seated / opposite you and your 0.2 fineliner, it includes all possible / universes »
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I’ll be reading in Exeter 7pm this Fri 21st April, for RAMM Lates at Royal Albert Memorial Museum, exploring their exhibition Earth Spells: Witches of the Anthropocene. I’ll mainly read new work! Part of a whole evening of fun and witchiness. Please come if you’d like to and live in Devon or North Cornwall.
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Come along to our adults only, after-hours night of entertainment exploring otherworldly connections to nature and the environment. This Lates is inspired by our new, specially curated, exhibition Earth Spells: Witches of the Anthropocene which responds to the climate and ecological crises through the work of eight contemporary artists. Hear…
Thrilled with this introduction to my poem ‘The Moor Horses’ #TheTLS Poem of the Week. I will never forget that day when the horses first appeared. Thank you Andrew McCulloch for your very kind words on my poem. #BodminMoor #BloodaxeBooks #ecopoetry #laurelprize
‘And still the horses arrive, as if they’ve descended / from petroglyphs, released from millennia carved on walls’ – Pascale Petit
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-moor-horses-pascale-petit-poem-of-the-week-andrew-mcculloch/
Three years after it was published, Pascale Petit’s seventh collection of poems Mama Amazonica (2017) won the inaugural Laurel prize for ecopoetry. The award included a commission to write a poem about an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Britain. Petit’s poem “The Moor Horses”, published in the TLS in 2021, is set on Bodmin …
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