HELEN'S LATEST NEWS

2022, TWO NEW ONSITE COURSES IN FROME!

In January 2022, Helen will be running two new onsite courses through Frome Community Education:

Reading & Writing Poetry, starting 19th Jan, more info and booking here.

Dreaming Ourselves Awake, starting 18th January, more info and booking here.

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​HELEN'S ECOPOETRY FEATURING IN RIVERRUN EXHIBITION

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Helen's latest long-form ecopoem, 'Dorset Waterbodies, a Common / Weal', is currently on display at Lighthouse gallery, Poole, as part of Cape Farewell's RiverRun Project, alongside work by David Buckland and Anna Frijstein. (Photo credit: Mark Simmons)

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Online ecopoetry feature in Italian

The new issue of the Italian online journal Tellus is dedicated to ecopoetry and features Helen's work alongside some of her poet hero[in]es, Gary Snyder and Jorie Graham, in translation and with an interview. Follow the link to read it for free. 

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Videos on YouTube

NEW DEFENCES OF POETRY

Marking 200 years since Shelley published 'A Defence of Poetry', Helen has contributed her essay 'A Defence of Ecopoetry, a Dance with Shelley' to this website.

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New writing about 'wild writing'

​Helen has a chapter on 'wild writing' in INSPIRE: Exciting Ways to Teaching Creative Writing, just published by Goldsmiths University, London.

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It's available via this online retailer, or better still order it from your local bookshops! The Centre for Language, Culture and Learning at Goldsmiths is also hosting the publication on its website, where itt's available to download for FREE!