Digging in the Dirt: adventures in ecopoetry with Clare Shaw, Caleb Parkin, Jess Mookherjee and Rishi Dastidar

MK Lit Fest have partnered with Poets for the Planet to present this online event, where four practising poets – Clare Shaw, Caleb Parkin, Rishi Dastidar and Jessica Mookherjee – will each present a masterclass that demonstrates their relationship to location and place, and how this is reflected in their poetry and their writing process and practices.

In this event, explore what happens when that geographic focus is narrowed: how writers respond to and capture in their words the experience of specific places,  their feelings about and for them, their history with them – or the future they hope to have with or for them?

This 90 minute event will include writing exercises and prompts, and you will have opportunities after the event to submit writing that it has inspired to Poets for the  Planet for sharing on their website and/or to MK Lit Fest’s Raising Voices Project, which is developing an online interactive audio-visual map of people’s responses to and relationships with particular locations across our home city.