Ecopoetics: Responding to The Natural World

“There are no/ other rivers,/ no prairies, no air, no clear/ wordless root of the breath.” Jan Zwicky, Seeing

In the pre-Romantic era, mountains were not considered beautiful, rather they were seen as wasted space. The Romantic poets changed how we view the natural world. What are we, in the 21st Century seeing and not seeing? How can poetry lead us to look and see and report in language and metaphor our changing world? In this three-hour class we will read poets whose focus is on the natural world, we will write poems in response to our own observations and engagement with the changing world around us. The class will include reading and discussing poems and in-class writing and perhaps a few form poems.

Fee: $30 + GST members , $35 + GST non-members

To register, complete the form below. Let us know if you will need to drive down to the workshop site.

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