How do we adapt, mitigate and create in response to the climate crisis? Join human rights and climate campaigner Kera Sherwood-O’Regan and the editors of the new No Other Place to Stand climate poetry anthology, Erik Kennedy, essa may ranapiri and Rebecca Hawkes, for a conversation about art and activism. How can poetry get us past the language of science and policy to where the ecological and human meet? With readings from contributors including Faumuina Felolini Maria Tafuna’i, Michelle Rahurahu, Kirsty Dunn and Philip Armstrong.
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NO OTHER PLACE TO STAND: CREATIVITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Speakers

Erik Kennedy
Erik Kennedy is a poet and editor. His poetry collections include Another Beautiful Day Indoors and There’s No Place Like the Internet in Springtime. He has co-edited No Other Place to Stand: An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand. Originally from New Jersey, he lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
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