We are pleased to host a workshop with Bloodaxe poet Yvonne Reddick on the morning of Saturday 25 November 2023, 10.30-12.30 at the Friends Meeting House, Manchester. Directions to the venue are on the Friends Meeting House website. The workshop will focus upon:

Ecopoetry and Activism
Join Yvonne Reddick for a morning of reading, writing and exploring poetry of environmental activism. We’ll discuss poetry and dissent, and write our own poems in celebration and defence of the environments we care about. From Ted Hughes donating a poem to Rhino Rescue, and Seamus Heaney selling bog-poems to raise funds for bog conservation, to Pascale Petit’s publishing a poem with Extinction Rebellion, environmentally-minded poets have long been a part of activist movements. We’ll explore Karen McCarthy Woolf’s idea of ‘activism of the heart’, discuss what a poem can do, and put pen to paper!

The fee is £20. Please email davidborrott@btinternet.com to confirm a place. Once your place has been confirmed payment can be made by cheque or by using the PayPal button below:

Workshop Payment £20     

Yvonne Reddick

Photo credit: Alastair Levy

Yvonne Reddick is an award-winning writer, editor, ecopoetry scholar, and climber. She has received a Leadership Fellowship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Poetry Society’s inaugural Peggy Poole Award, a Northern Writer’s Award and a Creative Futures Literary Award. Her work has appeared in The Guardian Review, Poetry Review and the New Statesman, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC North West Tonight. Her first book-length collection, Burning Season, is published by Bloodaxe in 2023 and won the Laurel Prize for Best UK First Collection of Ecopoetry. Its title poem was a prizewinner in the Gingko Prize for Ecopoetry 2023. Her other publications include Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet and Anthropocene Poetry.