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We were delighted to be joined by Louise Kenward for this session. Louise is a writer, artist and psychologist, and the editor of the groundbreaking anthology, ‘Moving Mountains: writing nature through illness and disability’. She was named in the 2023-24 Disability Power 100 list and is currently a postgraduate researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University, investigating the shifting coastline of the Romney Marshes. Her work has featured on BBC Radio 3, The Polyphony, The Clearing, and Women on Nature and her first full length book, A Trail of Breadcrumbs, is currently out on submission.
During the session, lots of exciting books and links were shared, including:
The Moving Mountains Anthology: https://footnotepress.com/books/moving-mountains/
Noreen Masud, ‘A Flat Place’: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/446630/a-flat-place-by-masud-noreen/9780241994337
David Farrier, ‘Anthropocene Poetics’: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517906269/anthropocene-poetics/
Modern Poetry in Translation, The Fingers of Our Soul: The Bodies Focus (2022): https://modernpoetryintranslation.com/magazine/the-fingers-of-our-souls-2022-number-1/
Disability Studies and The Environmental Humanities: Towards an Eco-Crip Theory: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1p6jht5
Abi Palmer, ‘Slugs: A Manifesto’: https://www.abipalmer.com/slugs
Abi Palmer, ‘Sanatorium - Penned in the Margins’: https://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2020/03/sanatorium/
Disability in mythology link: https://disabilityaccesscollective.blog/2024/03/04/disability-in-mythology/
The Disability Action Research Kollective (DARK) zine, ‘Disabled Gods’: https://libcom.org/article/disabled-gods
Ideas of affective mapping, deep mapping and counter cartographies: https://notanatlas.org/
We would also like to thank UKRI and the Leverhulme Trust for making this session possible.