Taking work primarily from writers of colour and disabled writers, we will explore a range of approaches to writing about nature, before going on to engage creatively with these themes through discussions, exercises and play.

After a short break, we will take a gentle wander around the area, identifying and engaging with nature in the urban environment and consider ecopoetics, the climate crisis, and explore the methods and responsibilities poetry has in responding to this.

At the end of the workshop, having produced several different written excerpts, we will consider the meaning of copying them onto plantable paper, and how this can demonstrate a nourishment from the ephemerality of poetry in a different form. The workshop is designed for writers of all levels – no experience of the forms, poets and topics will be required, and all attendees who have pre-registered will be given access to a pack containing the works we are engaging with.

Jamie Hale is a poet, screenwriter and essayist fascinated by the intimate connections between language, the mortal body, and nature. Their pamphlet, Shield, was published by Verve in Jan 2021, and their 2019 poetry and theatre show, NOT DYING, featured at the Barbican Centre, with which Jamie won Director/Theatremaker of the Year in the Future Theatre Fund awards. Jamie runs CRIPtic Arts, an arts development organisation focusing on d/Deaf and disabled creatives

Date: 19 March 2022, 10:30 am - 1:30 pm
Location: Deptford Lounge Room 2, 9 Giffin Street, London SE8 4RJ
Cost: £5

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