Climate Sorrow
To come
into knowing
is to come
into sorrow.
A sorrow
that arrives
as a thud,
deadening
and fearful.
Sorrow
is hard
to bear.
With sorrow
comes grief
and loss.
Not easy feelings.
Nor is guilt,
nor fury,
nor despair.
Climate sorrow
opens up
into wretched
states of mind
and heart.
We can find it
unbearable.
It is hard,
very hard,
to stay with.
Susie Orbach, from This Is Not A Drill, by Extinction Rebellion (pp.66-7)
Sculpture by Rogerio Timoteo
Some found poems
With thanks to Susie Orbach
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I am a lecturer, poet and writing tutor. I work in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter. My anthology Lifesaving Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015. In 2012 I published Riddance (Worple Press), a collection of poems, and Love for Now (Impress Books), a memoir, about my experience of cancer. My most recent books are Deck Shoes (Impress Books, 2019), a book of prose memoir and criticism, and The Afterlife (Worple Press, 2019). In 2023 I will publish The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, with Blue Diode Press. My current research project, with Sue Dymoke from Nottingham Trent University and funded by the Foyle Foundation, is Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/. This blog is archived by the British Library.
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Exactly!
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