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
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Erik Kennedy
Erik Kennedy is the author of Another Beautiful Day Indoors (2022) and There's No Place Like the Internet in Springtime (2018), both published by Te Herenga Waka University Press, and co-editor of No Other Place to Stand, a book of climate poetry from Aotearoa and the Pacific (Auckland University Press, 2022). He lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Credit: Meredith Henderson
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