MODRON with an image of Ruth Padel, a dark haired white woman, her crop of hair windswept
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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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...
@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...
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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“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.”
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
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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Still from The Dunes film featuring a landacape with a body of water
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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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.
Many thanks to @modronmagazine.bsky.social for publishing my conversation with @zoebrigley.bsky.social about my poem Chafer modronmagazine.com/2025/06/28/t...
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.
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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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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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."
Thanks for sharing!
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
Cerddi gan / Poems by Natalie Ann Holborow, Penelope Shuttle, Michelle Szobody
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Cerddi gan / Poems by Caleb Nichols, Simon Maddrell, Ruth Sharman, Lowri Hedd Vaughan
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Poems by / Cerddi gan Duriel E. Harris, Mari George, Siôn Tomos Owen, clare e potter, Sam Robinson.
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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).
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
Photo of bare trunks of silver birch standing in the snow.
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...
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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Thanks!
@xanindigo.bsky.social hey can we join your lit mag list? 💚🌱🌱
Thought I'd remind folk about the nature #writing starter packs and feed, now that @nicolawriting.bsky.social has joined the Bluesky crew. Please do like, 📌, repost & enjoy! Thank you 🙏🐸🐦⬛🌳🐌🐜
Starter Pack 1: go.bsky.app/NXoPc6D
Starter Pack 2: go.bsky.app/7opWxNV
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A snail shell
MODRON ISSUE 5
RHIF 5 MODRON
Read 'Of Luring'
Darllenwch ‘Deny’
by/gan Hildred Crill
Translated by / Cyfieithwyd gan Siân Melangell Dafydd
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A sea of money
MODRON ISSUE 5 RHIF 5 MODRON
Read ‘What the Deep Ocean Said to the Billionaire’
Darllenwch ‘Yr Hyn A Ddywedodd y Cefnfor Dwfn Wrth Y Biliwnydd’
by/gan Jonathan Kinsman
Trans. by / Cyfieithwyd gan Siân Melangell Dafydd
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A bat roosting
MODRON ISSUE 5
RHIF 5 MODRON
Read ‘Cusp of the Last Cold Moon’
Darllenwch ‘Pen Pella’r Lleuad Oer Olaf’
by/gan James McConachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social
Trans. by / Cyfieithwyd gan Siân Melangell Dafydd
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