Writers Rebel: Poem of the Month

This October, my poem ‘Two Futures’ was selected as the XR Writers Rebel Poem of the Month!

What can I say, other than I am chuffed!

As a writer motivated by giving space to the issue of climate breakdown in my practice, it infuses everything I write about, this is an incredibly meaningful piece of recognition.

I wish the need for it did not exist, of course.

But here we are.

I was inspired to write the poem after considering my childhood, growing up in the UK in the eighties; comparing the optimism of the TV programme Captain Planet, and comparing it to the story I hear now, with the Tech Bros’ and their tiresome narrative of conquest, and this is what came out.

Click here to read the poem in full (and scroll down to the bottom).