Ecopoetries, Centre for Research on Language, Culture & Heritage

is Professor of Ecopoetry and Poetics at Sheffield Hallam University and one of the founding British ecopoets. Single author poetry publications are with Guillemot Press, Shearsman Press and Etruscan books and her artists’ books with Judith Tucker are with Wild Pansy Press. Tarlo is editor of the foundational The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (2011) and special features on ecopoetics for How2 and Plumwood Mountain and on cross-disciplinary environmental art in Green Letters. She is the author of numerous academic essays on poetics, place and environment, including recent joint essays with Judith Tucker on walking, landscape and collaboration in special features of Sociologia Ruralis and Critical Survey.

is one of the UK’s most important contemporary poets whose interest in feminisms, political commitment, ecology and ecopoetics go back decades. She has pursued collaborations with artists and other poets, such as Irma Irsara, Elizabeth James, Peterjon Skelt and Tilla Brading and has written various essays and reviews, especially on innovative British women poets. Her Collected Poems: 2004 to 2020 was published by Shearsman Books in 2022: a two volume set representing a major achievement in modernist and postmodern poetry and prose, projects and collaborations.

is an award-winning English/Welsh poet and Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University, where her research explores urban space, sound, ecopoetics, contemporary experimental poetry and translation. She has published more than 11 poetry collections as well as 2 monographs on contemporary poetics, and her work has been widely anthologised, translated into over 25 languages and presented at numerous international festivals. As Editor of Poetry Wales from 2008 to 2014, Skoulding maintained the magazine's international focus and broadened its scope to include more experimental forms of poetry and in 2018 she received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors for the achievement and distinction of her body of work and her contribution to poetry.

The Narratives Series is a venue for inter-disciplinary explorations on the theme of “Narratives,” a central concept in the fields of literature studies and creative writing and also a crucial factor in demonstrating language ability, in cultural practices, and in social experience more generally. “What is a narrative?”, “how do narratives work?” or “what can narrative ability tell us about language development and pathologies? are questions of interest not just to those working with literature and language areas, but to any researcher interested in informing or educating.

This event will be held on campus at the University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, SE10 9LS in the Queen Anne Building, Room 063.

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Host or Publisher University of Greenwich - Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences