A warm welcome to all the new members who have joined the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics since June’s Expressing the Earth Conference in Argyll, and to all the new subscribers to this newsletter. A special welcome to new members in Australia and Ireland. The conference was a watershed event in Read more…
Our recent Expressing the Earth Geopoetics Conference in Argyll was a huge success and exceeded all expectations. Over 70 positive, passionate people from Brazil, USA, Switzerland, Italy, England, Wales and Scotland who care about the planet and its creative expression took part, including speakers from Argyll College and SAMS (both Read more…
Expressing the Earth Conference Thursday 22 – Saturday 24 June 2017 Seil Island Hall Argyll It’s only 5 weeks until our biggest ever trans-disciplinary Geopoetics Conference in Argyll with a wide range of creative workshops, presentations, field visits, films, network sessions and performances. The Scottish Centre for Geopoetics and the Read more…
Expressing the Earth Conference Thursday 22 – Friday 24 June 2017 Seil Island Hall Argyll You are cordially invited to take part in a trans-disciplinary Conference with creative workshops, presentations, field visits, films, seminars and performances. ‘Geopoetics is concerned, fundamentally, with a relationship to the earth and the opening of a Read more…
The latest issue of our online journal Stravaig is now available to read here: http://bit.ly/2hWgzdI It’s been a long time in the making but its poems and essays are well worth reading. The essays include the first and second place prize winners in the Hugh Miller Writing Competition. Many thanks Read more…
If you’d like to know more about what geopoetics is, the best place to start is our website at www.geopoetics.org.uk where you will find an overview of geopoetics and 4 issues of our online journal Stravaig. Issue 4 contains essays on intellectual nomadism by Kenneth White, Martina Kolb, Bill Read more…
Geopoetics News July 2015 Stravaig Issue 4: Intellectual Nomads Issue 4 of our online journal Stravaig is now live and contains essays on intellectual nomadism by Kenneth White, Martina Kolb, Bill Stephens and Norman Bissell, and on Rimbaud by Karen Strang and Mike Roman. It also has new poems and Read more…
Stravaig Issue 4: Intellectual Nomads Submissions of essays, poems and images for Stravaig Issue 4 on the theme of Intellectual Nomads are invited by Monday 12 January 2015 to Nancy Campbell at Nancy Campbell nancy@nancycampbell.co.uk and Norman Bissell at normanbissell@btinternet.com. We would like to express our thanks to Elizabeth Rimmer, Read more…
Stravaig Issue 3 is now online at https://www.geopoetics.org.uk/online-journal-stravaig/stravaig-3/. It’s bigger and better than ever with 8 essays and 14 poems on the theme Geopoetics in Practice ranging from Aberlady Bay to Saudi Arabia, from Illinois to Iona. Many thanks to Steve Pardue and all the contributors for making it such Read more…
Stravaig: Call for Submissions Issue 3 of Stravaig will be published in April 2014. Submissions – poetry, prose, essays, artwork – on the theme of geopoetics in practice should be sent to burnedthumb@gmail.com, cc to Norman Bissell normanbissell@btinternet.com by 1st December 2013. Images to accompany essays and poems are particularly Read more…