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Modron Magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 30

We’re back, after a summer break! This week, we’re thrilled to present an exclusive interview with leading poet, Ruth Padel, exploring creative process, inspiration, and the importance of the natural world to her work.

Huge thanks to Taz Rahman and Just Another Poet

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MODRON with an image of Ruth Padel, a dark haired white woman, her crop of hair windswept

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Lesley Curwen @elcurwen.bsky.social · Apr 6

Thanks to @zoebrigley.bsky.social for interviewing me about my poem 'A night on the river Yealm' for @modronmagazine.bsky.social. modronmagazine.com/2025/04/06/t...

The More Than Human Perspective in Environmental Poetry: A Poem and Interview with Lesley Curwen

In this interview, Lesley Curwen discusses her writing process, particularly in relation to nature and ocean pollution. Her poem “Night on the Yealm” captures a quiet moment on a sailin…

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · Apr 6

@modronmagazine.bsky.social Lesley Curwen discusses her writing process, particularly in relation to nature and ocean pollution. Her poem "Night on the Yealm" captures a quiet moment on a sailing trip, highlighting immersion in nature. Read on at modronmagazine.com/2025/04/06/t...

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · Apr 20

For "Plots & Plants" at @modronmagazine.bsky.social. John Freeman shares a favorite walk in the Vale of Glamorgan, detailing landscape changes due to recent weather. How might a nearby wildfire raise concerns about climate change's impact on local environments?
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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · Apr 20

For our series of poets and writers on the environment, Julie Runacres discusses her poetry's relationship with herbalism, women, and nature, addressing societal perceptions of women and ecology. Read more at modronmagazine.com @modronmagazine.bsky.social

“The idea of the female and the earth is so rooted in myth and tradition that I was conscious of shaping something much more fragmented than I would normally, in the knowledge that it was likely to cohere as part of a collective memory.”

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Özge Lena @lenaozge.bsky.social · Apr 22

CATAPOETICS is out in the world! Happy Earth Day everyone! 🖤

You can read about "Catapoetry" in the @modronmagazine.bsky.social

#catapoetics #catapoetry #catapoem #catastrocene #özgelena

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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · Apr 23

Fantastic essay by @lenaozge.bsky.social up on @modronmagazine.bsky.social 💚💚💚

Earth Day 2025: A Manifesto by Özge Lena

The narrative of the Phoenix symbolizes the journey of poets amid chaos and catastrophe. As the Phoenix is reborn from its ashes, poets are urged to address pressing global issues through “ca…

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Am @ambobdim.bsky.social · Apr 29

Earth Day issue of the eco-poetry magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social 🌍

Explore poetry, manifestos and films including 'The Dunes', which explores the perspective of a teenage, neurodivergent, working-class runaway, seeking refuge from a normative society

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Still from The Dunes film featuring a landacape with a body of water

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Soozerama @soozerama.bsky.social · May 22

Interview by @zoebrigley.bsky.social @modronmagazine.bsky.social

Welcome back to our series on writing the #MoreThanHuman. We offer a set of interviews with poets and writers on how they approach writing about the environment.

The More Than Human Perspective in Environmental Poetry: A Poem and Interview with Susie Wild

An author photograph of Susie Wild Interview by Zoë Brigley Welcome back to our series on writing the #MoreThanHuman. We offer a set of interviews with poets and writers on how they approach writin…

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poetryhilary.bsky.social @poetryhilary.bsky.social · Jun 30

Many thanks to @modronmagazine.bsky.social for publishing my conversation with @zoebrigley.bsky.social about my poem Chafer modronmagazine.com/2025/06/28/t...

The More Than Human Perspective in Environmental Poetry: A Poem and Interview with Hilary Watson

This interview features poet Hilary Watson discussing her creative process influenced by her interactions with insects. She addresses human perceptions of disgust and superiority over these creatur…

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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · Jul 17

We’re delighted to see Abeer Ameer on the shortlist for the @forwardprizes.bsky.social Best Single Poem – Written! 🎉 Her poem ‘At Least’ was first published by @modronmagazine.bsky.social.

Forward Prizes for Poetry @forwardprizes.bsky.social · Jul 17

The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Written
Announcing the #ForwardPrizes 2025 shortlist for Best Single Poem – Written! Poems that move, resonate, and demand to be read.
👏 Huge congratulations to the shortlisted poets!
🔗Full list: buff.ly/SS35YlZ

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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · Apr 22

A short film I wrote, filmed by Nathan Roach (Coal Poet Media), 'The Dunes', exploring the perspective of a runaway kid finding sanctuary in a desolate duneland on the Welsh coast.

Huge thanks to Nathan for the beautiful images of #Kenfig #poetry #wales

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Earth Day 2025: The Dunes, A Film by Kristian Evans & Nathan Roach

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Modron Magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social · Feb 23

Today, a poem and interview with Dyfan Lewis, filmed alongside the river Taff, Cardiff, Wales 📽️

Dyma gerdd a chyfweliad gyda Dyfan Lewis, wedi’i ffilmio ar lan afon Taf, Caerdydd, Cymru 📽️

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Ffilm: Cerdd gan Dyfan Lewis, Film: A Poem by Dyfan Lewis

Here is a poem and interview with Dyfan Lewis, filmed alongside the river Taff, Cardiff, Wales, UK. Funded by the Books Council Wales, Modron is a literary magazine in response to the ecological cr…

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Modron Magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social · Jan 27

Check out a review of Roselle Angwin's A Spell in the Forest by new staff writer Sarah Bitter at modronmagazine.com

The book's blurb: "A Spell in the Forest - Tongues in Trees is part love-song, part poetic guidebook, and part exploration of thirteen native sacred British tree species."

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Modron Magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social · Jan 13

Thanks for sharing!

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · Jan 13

I really love this poem by Taylor Edmond’s in @modronmagazine.bsky.social . modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ta... It’s not only a fantastic poem, but is a great teaching resource. Taylor is also superb workshop facilitator . @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

A Poem by Taylor Edmonds

My Magnolia Tree All I have left of my great-grandmother is her letters. While I was taking my first breath she was watching the storm roll in, lining the house with an army of sandbags, willing th…

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Modron Magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social · Jan 12

Cerddi gan / Poems by Natalie Ann Holborow, Penelope Shuttle, Michelle Szobody

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Modron Magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social · Jan 12

Cerddi gan / Poems by Caleb Nichols, Simon Maddrell, Ruth Sharman, Lowri Hedd Vaughan

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Modron Magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social · Jan 12

Poems by / Cerddi gan Duriel E. Harris, Mari George, Siôn Tomos Owen, clare e potter, Sam Robinson.

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Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social · Dec 2

For those who've not found it yet.. I've made lists of UK Poets here so you can find them. Search it or click follow all for each one and you'd have more than 600 poets (& adding more to List 5 as I find them).

Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social · Nov 23

Here are the UK Poets lists including all the poets based in the UK that I've found on Bluesky so far. List 1 is here and the next lists are in the comments. Let me know if anyone is missing and I'll add them to the last list:

go.bsky.app/DgHRkcK

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · Jan 10

Thought I'd curate a Starter Park of writers living & working in Wales 🖋️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 drop me a line if you'd like to be added!

go.bsky.app/7L23QS7

#WelshWriters #WtitingCommunity #Wales

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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · Jan 10

This week’s #FridayPoem is ‘Birch’ by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams from her sequence ‘The Tree Calendar’ republished in ‘The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/01/frid...

Photo of bare trunks of silver birch standing in the snow.

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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · Jan 12

Midwinter is behind us now of course, but I thought I'd share a recent piece by me about ice and salt, the tenacity of rock pipits, and the working class mystic Jacob Boehme... (and thanks to Sustainable Wales for publishing it)
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MIDWINTER AT SKER — Sustainable Wales

Ice on the rockpools and salt in the hail that lashed across the black shipwrecking hooks of Sker Point. I shrank into my coat, tugged my hood over my eyes and retreated.

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Modron Magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social · Jan 5

Thanks!

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Modron Magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social · Jan 5

@xanindigo.bsky.social hey can we join your lit mag list? 💚🌱🌱

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