We’re delighted to welcome back our #EcoSonnetChain editor, #LindaFrance, to conclude the opening quartet of our #ArtSonnetChain.
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Kathleen McPhilemy’s excellent podcast, ‘Poetry Worth Hearing’, featuring the launch of our #EcoSonnetChain, is now up on Spotify, Audible, and YouTube, introduced by #LindaFrance and featuring readings from almost all participants:
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Dear Pals, This is your friendly neighbourhood ‘Too Late to Make a Difference!’ reminder that tonight, at 7.30pm, we are launching the #EcoSonnetChain with #LindaFrance and a host of (well, several) contributors:
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On Valentine’s Day #LindaFrance began our #EcoSonnetChain for which 14 poets each wrote a sonnet linked by last & 1st lines.
She said, ‘Our chain aims to embody the Amazonian ethic of mutirão – collective action based on the understanding everything is connected to everything else.’
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‘Our chain has a cinematic quality – each individual sonnet a scene, directed by another eye. In the looking, the poets help us see more clearly, stay more present and alert ourselves.’
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‘If offering careful attention is a gesture of love – a prayer, according to Simone Weil, and the original source of the sonnet form – these poets have all gazed intensely at a challenging subject most of us would prefer to look away from.’
#EcoSonnetChain
As the old mnemonic goes, ESCDAC (Every Sonnet Chain Deserves A Crown), and the Eco Chain has acquired an excellent example thanks to the brilliance of its co-editor, #LindaFrance. Read it here:
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Many thanks to the poets who took part in the #EcoSonnetChain:
#LindaFrance, #EmmaMust, @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social, #AnnSophieBalzer, @janeburn.bsky.social, #TishaniDoshi, #JemmaBorg, @jsaphra.bsky.social, #JacobPolley, @sophieherx.bsky.social, @helenmort.bsky.social, #SteveEly, & #GlynMaxwell.
…its entirety, her splendid 1st sonnet, posted on #ValentinesDay, set the tone:
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From then on, we posted new sonnets fortnightly for 7 months, featuring a baker’s dozen of poets.
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Now that it’s complete, we’d like to thank #LindaFrance for everything she’s done to make the #EcoSonnetChain such a success - it’s our best one yet, and that’s entirely down to her selection and editing nous.
If you’d like to check it out in…
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I’m especially pleased to share this furniture poem by #LindaFrance - firstly because it’s so etymologically alert to the link between ‘armoire’ and ‘armoury’, leading to its alarming conclusion.
#GhostFurnitureCatalogue
We’re delighted to welcome an armoire to the Catalogue, especially as this one belongs to #LindaFrance - that would be why all the words fit so neatly into it and yet astonish when you open the door:
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Number Seven in our #EcoSonnetChain (curated by #LindaFrance) is a tremendous paean to new growth by #JemmaBorg:
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#LindaFrance launches the #EcoSonnetChain on her Substack site, #Startling, with an apt quote from Lee-Seong-bok’s Indeterminate Inflorescences:
‘Poetry is the wilderness that culture cannot completely cover.’
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Here’s the first in #NewBootsAndPantisocracies’ new #EcoSonnetChain - posted on #ValentinesDay because these are all love poems - written by #LindaFrance, a great advocate and exponent of eco-poetry as well as a fine poet.
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