Modron Magazine

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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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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…

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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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…

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

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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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…

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 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…

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.

YouTube video by Modron Magazine Earth Day 2025: The Dunes, A Film by Kristian Evans & Nathan Roach

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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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…

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!

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…

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!

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#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 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.

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

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Read 'Of Luring'
Darllenwch ‘Deny’

by/gan Hildred Crill

Translated by / Cyfieithwyd gan Siân Melangell Dafydd

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A sea of money

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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

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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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#naturewriting