In this episode, we talk to Bristol City Poet Caleb Parkin about taxonomies, ecophrastic poems and the historical exclusion of LGBTQIA+ people from environmental movements and access to nature. We chat about the way our sense of 'nature' is always mediated through culture and the need for irreverence and irony to offset the self-righteousness that can be associated with climate activism. We discuss how queer perspectives can alter the conversation around climate justice and the need for us to sit with uncertainty and unknowingness.
Caleb's dazzling, slippery poetry collection - This Fruiting Body - is out now from Nine Arches Press.
As a Tender Buttons listener you can get 10% discount on Caleb's book at Storysmith Books, listen in for more details and then head to our page on the Storysmith website: storysmithbooks.com/tenderbuttons
References
This Fruiting Body by Caleb Parkin
Wasted Rainbow by Caleb Parkin
Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise by Jane Hirshfield
Our theme music is a sample from Flotation by Ben Vince from his album The Purge.
