‘I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom not separated from it.’ Jane Goodall
Explore your creaturely connection
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Donations mean I have a £10 off ticket for someone who needs it - contact me if that's you. As Margaret E Atwood says ‘I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it everything change.’ An exhilarating brief for a writer cathdrake.com/events/climate…

One ticket now available to spend a blissful 2.5hours with Pascale Petit and Ekphrasis (writing poetry inspired by art) next Monday 15th April cathdrake.com/events/pascale…

Truly an extraordinary book—unfathomably original in its sensibility—read it—thank you ⁦Carcanet Press⁩!

... we humans have understood the voices we hear around us as less than human, or at least hopelessly foreign... Earth's chorus needs all of its constituent voices’ Poetics for the More-Than-Human' Anthology, intro. Explore creaturely voices cathdrake.com/events/climate…

Other animals are more than ‘useful metaphors', romantic or cute images, more than how they can be 'used' by humans. How do we express our connection to the other creatures that we share the web of life with?  Join this small international poetry group cathdrake.com/events/climate…

Happy #WorldPoetryDay2024 ! Feeling creative? Check out these fantastic poetry workshops hosted by award-winning UK-based Australian poet Cath Drake ⬇️

Creaturely Connections!  Other animals are more than ‘useful' metaphors, romantic or cute images, more than how they can be used by humans. How do we creatively express our connection?  The first of 3 workshops on the Climate of Change! cathdrake.com/events/climate…

Fellow poets, it can be hard to keep writing about around climate change, but equally, writing about the Anthropocene can be so inventive, surprising, exciting, expressive &often nurturing - not just about the problems. What env poetry workshops do we want? What's missing?

Shout out to @societyofautho who do some wonderful free sessions to give writers a feel good on Fridays - here's my offering in July Society of Authors www2.societyofauthors.org/event/feel-goo…

Needed this today - maybe you do too poets.org/poem/youre-top…

Submit your work outside of your own country! Here's a fab comp for essay and fiction writers in the US (poetry deadline later) WinningWriters.com winningwriters.com/our-contests/t…

Would you like a close reading discursive workshop on the work of the marvelous late Michael Donaghy with one of his poetry peers, Don Paterson in September on The Verandah? It would be lovely to dive into his work. Thoughts? cathdrake.com/events-2/

Thank you so much WinningWriters.com I've heard you're a great organisation!

Poets always push bold thinking, often writing against the mainstream, and in this time of great environmental change, we want to be at the forefront of envisioning a future, a resilience, as Prof. Rupert Read describes, the 'thrutopia'cathdrake.com/events/climate…
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Does anyone else remember those fabulous Pascale Petit FRSL🐅🌴🐆🌳🦌 poetry workshops years ago at @tate Modern ?! ... revisit some of that magic in her Ekphrasis masterclass, poetry inspired by art, on 15th April. cathdrake.com/events/pascale… Can't wait - bound to be joyful!

Explore poetry inspired by art with the magnificently imaginative poet & artist Pascale Petit FRSL🐅🌴🐆🌳🦌 Bloodaxe Books & write some ekphrasis poetry with Pascale's guidance.
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Only a few tickets left for the next masterclass on The Verandah to sharpen your poetic imagery with Judith Beveridge Giramondo Publishing 18 March cathdrake.com/events/judithb… she'll be looking at stunning imagery by 2 great poets, Elizabeth Bishop & Aussie Robert Gray + writing exercises