Are you working on your submission for the Gingko Prize, the world's largest prize for ecopoetry? If so, why not come along to Dom Bury's workshop, exploring how as writers we can face the grief of climate change and ecological collapse.
Almost two decades into the twenty first century, it is becoming increasingly clear that without serious change in our behaviour as a species, we are headed towards environmental catastrophe and ecological collapse.
Yet with governments and businesses seemingly inert or unwilling to act, many feel a profound sense of helplessness alongside a grief for what has not yet been lost; it is this grief itself that paralyses us.
What we know of grief from psychological models is that it has seven stages – shock, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, testing, and acceptance. But because of our sense of helplessness, most of us are stuck in one of the first five stages.
This workshop explores this grief and how, as writers and humans, we can face darkness in order to reach acceptance and a position from which positive action can then be taken.
Date: Saturday 24 August, 10.30am – 2pm
Location: The Poetry School, 1 Dock Offices, Surrey Quays Road, London, SE16 2XU
Cost: Free
Further details and to book here
The Ginkgo Prize, organised by the Poetry School, is the world’s largest prize for ecopoetry.