The Art of Attention: Poetry and the Living World

What happens when we slow down and look deeply at the world around us?

This generative poetry workshop explores attention as a creative practice — and as a form of care. Together, we’ll read and discuss contemporary poems which engage with the natural world and the climate crisis, and consider how environmental change is experienced not only as a global concern, but through the places we call home and the communities to which we belong.

Through guided writing prompts, participants will be invited to explore their own relationships with landscape and place, drawing on memory, observation and imagination. We’ll write to take stock of the changes around us, and what — and whom — we choose to notice and care for.

This workshop is an opportunity to reflect, experiment and generate new work in a supportive environment. You don’t need to have written poetry before: whether you’re an experienced poet…