Date: Saturday 25th April 2026

Venue: Watershed (W1)

Time: 14:00 - 15:30

Tickets: £8 (£10 solidarity, £5 concessions)

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Endless Invention: Ecopoetry & Technology

Writing Workshop

Drawing on James Bridle's concept of technology as “what we can learn to do” (in ‘Ways of Being’) – that ‘we/us’ a multi-species collective – this 90-minute workshop explores how contemporary ecopoetics reimagines our technological edges. Through close reading of poems that engage with scales from bugs to celestial bodies, and from tangible to digital, we’ll explore how poetic attention functions as a method for cross-species witness and making-with. Informed by my PhD research, the session offers prompts that reposition poets as inventors and seers, extending human perception towards more sustainable, collaborative futures.

Caleb Parkin:

Caleb Parkin, Bristol City Poet 2020 - 22, has poems in The Guardian, The Rialto, The Poetry Review and was guest poet on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please. He has three pamphlets, his debut collection, This Fruiting Body (Nine Arches) was longlisted for the Laurel Prize and his second collection, Mingle, is due October 2024. He tutors for Arvon, Poetry Society, Poetry School and elsewhere. He holds an MSc Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes and is a practice-as-research PhD candidate at University of Exeter.

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