Helen Moore & Cape Farewell online launch for river / run, an ecopoetic trilogy Nov 24

David Buckland, director of Cape Farewell, introduces Dr Helen Moore and the RiverRun project, in which scientists and artists responded to pollution in the Poole Bay watershed, Dorset, UK. Helen gives an illustrated talk and reading from her new book of longform landscape ecopoems about rivers and wild Atlantic Salmon. There is then a Q&A with the audience. @EcopoetUK
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river / run endorsements
‘Helen Moore is a poet of the luminous present and a precursor of ecopoetics. When asked by the public for contemporary poets writing about the natural world, Helen is the first on our list of recommendations.’ - Chris McCabe, Head Librarian, National Poetry Library, UK
‘Helen has the extraordinary ability to understand and digest the complex scientific concepts and processes that take place in the natural world, translating them into inspiring poems. As a scientist, I recognise the significant value these poems contribute to our field. They serve as a powerful instrument to connect with communities that traditional scientific communication struggles to reach.’ - Professor Genoveva F. Esteban, Bournemouth University, UK
‘The story of the endangered Atlantic salmon, that most iconic and romantic of animals, is in desperate need of telling, and Helen’s stunning poems about its almost mythical life cycle grasp the baton that Ted Hughes left with works such as ‘October Salmon.’’ - Jim Murray, actor and activist
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