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Today, a poem and interview with Dyfan Lewis, filmed alongside the river Taff, Cardiff, Wales 📽️ Dyma gerdd a chyfweliad gyda Dyfan Lewis, wedi’i ffilmio ar lan afon Taf, Caerdydd, Cymru 📽️ modronmagazine.com/2025/02/23/f...

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Check out a review of Roselle Angwin's A Spell in the Forest by new staff writer Sarah Bitter at modronmagazine.com The book's blurb: "A Spell in the Forest - Tongues in Trees is part love-song, part poetic guidebook, and part exploration of thirteen native sacred British tree species."

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I really love this poem by Taylor Edmond’s in @modronmagazine.bsky.social . modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ta... It’s not only a fantastic poem, but is a great teaching resource. Taylor is also superb workshop facilitator . @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

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Poems by / Cerddi gan Duriel E. Harris, Mari George, Siôn Tomos Owen, clare e potter, Sam Robinson. modronmagazine.com/issue-five-c...

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For those who've not found it yet.. I've made lists of UK Poets here so you can find them. Search it or click follow all for each one and you'd have more than 600 poets (& adding more to List 5 as I find them).

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Thought I'd curate a Starter Park of writers living & working in Wales 🖋️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 drop me a line if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/7L23QS7 #WelshWriters #WtitingCommunity #Wales

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This week’s #FridayPoem is ‘Birch’ by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams from her sequence ‘The Tree Calendar’ republished in ‘The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/01/frid...

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Midwinter is behind us now of course, but I thought I'd share a recent piece by me about ice and salt, the tenacity of rock pipits, and the working class mystic Jacob Boehme... (and thanks to Sustainable Wales for publishing it) www.sustainablewales.org.uk/a-kenfig-jou...

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@xanindigo.bsky.social hey can we join your lit mag list? 💚🌱🌱

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Thought I'd remind folk about the nature #writing starter packs and feed, now that @nicolawriting.bsky.social has joined the Bluesky crew. Please do like, 📌, repost & enjoy! Thank you 🙏🐸🐦‍⬛🌳🐌🐜 Starter Pack 1: go.bsky.app/NXoPc6D Starter Pack 2: go.bsky.app/7opWxNV Feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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MODRON ISSUE 5 RHIF 5 MODRON Read 'Of Luring' Darllenwch ‘Deny’ by/gan Hildred Crill Translated by / Cyfieithwyd gan Siân Melangell Dafydd modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ce...

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MODRON ISSUE 5 RHIF 5 MODRON Read ‘What the Deep Ocean Said to the Billionaire’ Darllenwch ‘Yr Hyn A Ddywedodd y Cefnfor Dwfn Wrth Y Biliwnydd’ by/gan Jonathan Kinsman Trans. by / Cyfieithwyd gan Siân Melangell Dafydd modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ce...

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MODRON ISSUE 5 RHIF 5 MODRON Read ‘Cusp of the Last Cold Moon’ Darllenwch ‘Pen Pella’r Lleuad Oer Olaf’ by/gan James McConachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social Trans. by / Cyfieithwyd gan Siân Melangell Dafydd modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ce...

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#naturewriting

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Modron Issue 5 / Rhif 5 Modron Read Kexin Huang / Darllenwch Kexin Huang: "a gondola is a bowstring of water away from a crescent wing" "mae gondola rhyw linyn bwa o ddŵr o siâp cilgaint adain" Translation by Siân Melangell Dafydd modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ce...

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Modron Issue 5 / Rhif 5 Modron Read Kexin Huang / Darllenwch Kexin Huang: "a gondola is a bowstring of water away from a crescent wing" "mae gondola rhyw linyn bwa o ddŵr o siâp cilgaint adain" Translation by Siân Melangell Dafydd modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ce...

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Modron Issue 5 / Rhif 5 Modron Read Rosie Hadden / Darllenwch Rosie Hadden: “i hide in the sprawling arms of willow / wait for the fawn to arrive” “rwy’n cuddio ym mreichiau llydan yr helyg / gan aros i’r elain gyrraedd” modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ce...

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Stoked to have a poem in here, for some reason the acceptance emails were in the junk folder, so I had no idea until I saw the mag. So chuffed they pressed ahead anyway and what’s more, translated it into Welsh/Cymraeg. The best new year surprise imaginable.

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Our latest issue of Modron is out today, and it's full of excellent poetry translated into Welsh/Cymraeg by Sian Melangell Dafydd and much more besides - check it out here:

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It's New Year's Day when many hunting parties take place, and in issue 5 of Modron, released today, we are glad to include a poem 'Muzzle' by Martyn Crucefix which meditates on an enecounter with a hunting party. See: modronmagazine.com/a-poem-and-i...

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We have a brilliant new issue of @modronmagazine.bsky.social out today at modronmagazine.com. Writing on nature and the ecological criss.

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My poem about Jiangnan江南 is published in @modronmagazine.bsky.social Thank you @SianMelangell for the Welsh translation! #poetry modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ce...

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"There is no logical reason for the existence of a snowflake any more than there is for evolution. It is an apparition from that mysterious shadow world beyond nature, that final world which contains - if anything contains - the explanation of men and catfish and green leaves.."

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📢📢📢📢📢A new issue of @ModronMagazine coming New Year's Day 2025. Rhifyn newydd yn dod ar 1af Ionawr 2025.

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Wise words from Amitav Ghosh, from his speech accepting the Erasmus Prize this year. The whole speech can be found linked below.

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This is a really interesting one. Interview by @glynedwards.bsky.social

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This week's interview: Estonian writer Ilmar Lehtpere discussing translating poetry, particularly Kersti Merilaas' work. Ilmar highlights translating diverse voices to combat cultural homogenization and promote environmental awareness through literature.See modronmagazine.com for more.

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Bu gormod o law eleni yng Nghymru! Yma, mae Hywel Griffiths yn trafod llifogydd, afonydd y Rhonddfa a thraddodiad o newyddiaduraeth amgylcheddol yng Nghymru. Check out this Welsh-language article on Rhondda rivers and environmental journalism in Wales. www.modronmagazine.com

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#MoreThanHuman series: this week we meet Eartha Davis, a woman of Ngāpuhi & Celtic heritage living on Wurundjeri land, who talks about the connection between those two heritages and environmental philosophy. #ModronMagazine Interview by Glyn F Edwards See the full interview at modronmagazine.com

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For our #MoreThanHuman series, this week we meet Eartha Davis, a woman of Ngāpuhi & Celtic heritage living on Wurundjeri land, who talks about the connection between those two heritages and environmental philosophy. #ModronMagazine Interview by Glyn Edwards modronmagazine.com/2024/12/15/t...

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Lovely news to wake up to! Thanks so much and congrats to all the other poets! 💚

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Thanks so much to Zoe and Kris for the nomination! Modron is a brilliant magazine of poems and fascinating interviews and insights into ecopoetics and more - seeketh it out! 💕 🌱

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We are delighted to announce the poets that we nominated for the Pushcart Prize this year. You'll find all the poems in issue 4 of MODRON: modronmagazine.com/issue-4-cont...

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News from Modron: modronmagazine.com/2024/12/05/j...

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At Modron we are glad to be part of the #SaveWelshMagazines campaign urging Creative Wales to increase funding for magazines in Wales. The situation at the moment is unsustainable, and the mags are vital to a healthy cultural life.

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As new editor of Postbox Magazine, I now declare the Spring submission window open (15th November - 31st Dec)! I'm looking forward to reading short stories that experiment with form and sing with essential brevity! Submission details at www.redsquirrelpress.com/submissions

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@modronmagazine.bsky.social are sharing writing prompts all through November for NaNoWriMo, and asking for donations for medical aid in Gaza. Today, the prompt is one of my faves drawn from my Dorothy Wordsworth work. Please enjoy, share & donate if you can: modronmagazine.com/2023/11/03/d...

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From editor Zoe Brigley at @modronmagazine.bsky.social: “This writing prompt from Mari Ellis Dunning on overcoming adversity is… about giving birth to a premature baby & has become so poignant now thinking of mothers in Gaza giving birth without proper care & premature babies without incubators.”

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When we first respond to Nature's invitation to be understood, we feel we must impose our will upon the things we study. But soon, they turn on us and close in on us with such force that we must acknowledge and respect their strange authority over us. (After #Goethe)

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From 'throw-away' to 'no-away' culture... "Spoiler alert: the system is rigged. In fact, we live in a series of interlocking systems that are harmful by design..." humansandnature.org/its-time-to-...

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