Can Poetry Save the Earth?

Our Changing World: Yearn to Learn (2018)

Can Poetry Save the Earth?
Our Changing World
Public Lecture Series
Albany Campus, Massey University, Thursday 31st May, 6-7.30 pm

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Can poetry save the Earth? 

Thursday 31 May 2018  | Associate Professor Bryan Walpert, Dr Jack Ross, Dr Jo Emeney
Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems is the title of poet and critic John Felstiner's 2009 exploration of how the human and natural worlds connect. Can writing and reading poetry change both? It’s a question that resonates with one of the most pressing issues of our time – the impact of climate change. Poets and editors Associate Professor Bryan Walpert, Dr Jack Ross and Dr Jo Emeney, from Massey’s creative writing programme, discuss how imagination and thinking about nature can be opened up through poetry and will read from their own work.

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John Clare: The Skylark (1835)





I ♥ NZ (1999)





Family Plot (2015)


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What to do till the sentinels come (2018)





1942 (2016)





My Uncle Tommy (2018)





Paul Celan: Matter of Britain (1957)

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Our Changing World: 2018 Lecture Series