Poetry & The Ecologies of Serious Noticing | with Sarah Westcott
Saturday 12/7/25
10am - 1pm
Saturday 12/7/25
10am - 1pm
Saturday 12/7/25
10am - 1pm
Course description
This inspiring and highly contemporary three-hour workshop, on which spaces are limited to eight participants, will consider how, as 21st century poets, we might write not only about but with nature, investigating how ecological thought suffuses our work and questioning our positionality in the world as writers. We will immerse ourselves in contemporary ecopoetry and poetics through reading, writing and discussion, exploring the spaces between the human and the more-than human, working and playing with natural objects, and (weather permitting!) venturing outdoors to draft poems en-plein air.
About the tutor
Sarah Westcott has published two collections with Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press) - Slant Light, which was highly commended in the Forward Prize and Bloom which was shortlisted for the Ledbury Hellens Prize for best second collections in 2023. Her second pamphlet, Pond, a hybrid piece, was published by The Braag in 2024 and a hand-stitched pamphlet, Almanac, is forthcoming with Coast to Coast to Coast this year. Sarah was previously a newspaper reporter for 20 years. She is currently researching a PhD on the poem as a multi-species event and lives on the edges of London/Kent with her family.