Climate Lab 2024

I visited the Climate Lab exhibition last month at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool. I also took part in an eco-poetry workshop workshop called ‘Waterlands’, where we reflected on observations, change, climate, and read poems. This event was organised by the writers Maria Isakova-Bennett and Yvonne Reddick.

I found this session very inspiring in terms of thinking about our connection with nature as well as writing poetry. I wrote the following poems in relation to nature (about a fern), as well as the cyclical aspect of life. I wrote on Poem #2 the darkness experienced either by absence of sunlight or by the darkness experienced when the effects of climate change are felt and we somewhat loose hope.

POEM #1
Curls and unfolds
unfolds and curls
in an everlasting motion
as if the land would reinvent itself,
reborn and dead.
Permanently, infinitely, eternal.

POEM #2
What goes dark must become light again
the unceasant motion wraps us round
pushing us to get comfortable with darkness.