Briony Hughes

Oct 23, 2024 | resurgence.org | Rachel Marsh |Briony Hughes

Caleb Parkin’s poetry has the wonderful quality of showing us how magical the more-than-human world really is, and then playfully encourages us to re-evaluate our relationship within it. One way he does this is by switching pronouns, going from the individual ‘I’ to a more ecologically minded ‘we/us’. “For me,” he writes, “much ecopoetry relates to this tr/icky balance of being-with the nonhuman world.

Dec 20, 2023 | resurgence.org | Briony Hughes |Rachel Marsh

To us, now secure in our winter routines, the summer of 2023 feels like a lifetime ago, especially Europe’s season of extreme heat. It is now seven months since multiple fires spread on the island of Rhodes. You might recall how this story dominated international news, with first-person accounts taking social media by storm. However, the scenes of amber flames and thick smoke billowing over the Rhodian mountains and coastline have quietly faded into distant memory.