BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//github.com/rianjs/ical.net//NONSGML ical.net 4.0//EN URL:https://studentevents.bham.ac.uk/ents/event/ics/4242/ VERSION:2.0 X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-WR-CALNAME:Literature and environmental crisis (4242) BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:GMT Standard Time X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241027T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=4SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:GMT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:BST TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts & Law CATEGORIES:Green Week CREATED:20260223T154426 DESCRIPTION:How can reading poetry change your perception of nature? Sara Wood and John Holmes share poems and extracts through which we can apprec iate nature and re-imagine our role in addressing environment crises.\n\n https://studentevents.bham.ac.uk/ents/event/4242/\n DTEND:20260317T140000 DTSTAMP:20260404T144326Z DTSTART:20260317T130000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260223T154426 LOCATION:Lecture Room 1 (Room 125)\, Arts building SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Literature and environmental crisis UID:1171ca85-e252-4672-9d42-671660860ed4 URL:https://studentevents.bham.ac.uk/ents/event/4242/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

How can reading poetry change your perceptio n of nature? Sara Wood and John Holmes share poems and extracts through w hich we can appreciate nature and re-imagine our role in addressing envir onment crises.

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How can reading poe try change your perception of nature?

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John Holmes will read and discuss a selection of poems about trees and forests from the nineteenth century to the present\, by British\, Caribbean and indigenous North Ame rican poets\, to show how poetry can open our minds to new ways of thinki ng about and appreciating the natural world.

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Sara Wood will rea d and discuss extracts from a range of 20th century US literary texts to explore how ecological approaches &ndash\; from &lsquo\;honourable harves ts&rsquo\; to &lsquo\;thinking like a mountain&rsquo\; &ndash\; can inspi re us to re-imagine our role in addressing environmental crises.

\n\n< p>This activity is open to all \;students\, everyone is welcome and n o prior knowledge of the topic or texts is needed. No need to book in adv ance\, just join on the day.

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