Samuel Tongue


Samuel Tongue works at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh. His first collection is Sacrifice Zones (Red Squirrel, 2020) and he has published two pamphlets: Stitch (Tapsalteerie, 2018) and Hauling-Out (Eyewear, 2016). His poems have appeared in Butcher’s Dog, Magma, The Compass, Finished Creatures, Gutter, The Interpreter’s House, Under the Radar and elsewhere. You can learn more at www.samueltongue.com.

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  • Day 3

    17th October 2021

  • 15:00  - 16:00
    The planet is on fire and in flood, as ever more alarming reports detail the impacts of climate change and species extinction, soil erosion and air pollution. How on earth should we respond to this ever-expanding checklist of loss? In their own inimitable ways, two astonishing poets shape their work as exercises in environmental attention. Jen Hadfield’s The Stone Age helps the rocks of Shetland speak aloud, bringing the living consciousness of all things into simultaneous conversation and fresh silence. Polly Atkin’s new collection Much with Body immerses this attention into disabled bodies, creating a shimmering ecopoetry of lakescapes and watery, shifting place. Both poets will Zoom into the event, chaired in-person by poet and Push the Boat Out program advisor Samuel Tongue.

    This event will be BSL signed.

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