Climate Justice Poetry Workshop

Course Summary

‘I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change.’ — Margaret Atwood

This course is designed for emerging poets who want to deepen their practice of sustained poetic attention to our transforming planet. ‘Climate Lyricism’ is a term coined by Min Hyoung Song for a creative practice that unites both thought and action. Over four weeks, we will explore different approaches to writing, workshopping, editing and publishing poetry that pays close attention to our natural world, its cycles and its shifts. We’ll read poems that encounter the ways climate change is redrawing our lives and landscapes through the lenses of the elements and the work of poets writing in Ireland and internationally. Each session will begin with discussion of a poem, followed by workshopping of your own original work. Time permitting, this will be complemented by a guided writing exercise.