Ecopoetry Workshop 3: Katy Lewis-Hood and Maria Sledmere by Lila Matsumoto

Audre Lorde: Coal

katylh — 2023-12-10 12:33:10 UTC

Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station / energy crisis

katylh — 2023-12-10 12:36:40 UTC

The Future of Coal Generation in Great Britain: Impact Assessment (2020)

katylh — 2023-12-10 18:48:08 UTC

Libita Sibungu: Quantum Ghost

katylh — 2023-12-10 18:48:53 UTC

A plan showing the intended Nottingham Canal (1791)

katylh — 2023-12-10 19:16:44 UTC

The University of Manchester Energy Database - Card Deck

mariasledmere — 2023-12-12 10:36:11 UTC

'I too sucked satiny coals' - Cixous

mariasledmere — 2023-12-12 10:48:50 UTC

“Promethea has awakened in me dreams extinguished for thousands of years; sometimes one catches on fire even through so many icy layers. Promethea has rekindled dreams of fire in me, dreams of abysses, they are terribly dangerous dreams: as long as they are dreams alone, as long as one dreams alone, one can fool around with dreaming, because afterward one forgets. But now, ever since I learned how Promethea brings the fire of all dreams up into reality, how she climbs back up through the shaft of the Red Cows, bearing the first fire, how she crosses the Chamber of the Mares, how she goes through every epoch of existence reawakening along the walls memories of times so fragile and so inflammable, and comes out in 1982 still carrying in her hands the primitive spark, I feel myself wavering between exultation and terror. Formerly, I too sucked satiny coals. Once I burned my tongue. (That only happens if someone makes you lose faith.) Ever since I have no longer dared suck real fire; for a long time I lived on electricity. But I have never forgotten the fiery taste of eternity. I just was sure that I could live with my tongue extinguished until the end of my days. I was not even tempted. I was calm. I had firm definitions. I called happiness the absence of unhappiness. I wrote in ink and I dedicated my dreams to the Moons.” ― Hélène Cixous, The Book of Promethea

Paul Cocksedge, 'Coalescence' (2023)

mariasledmere — 2023-12-12 10:49:41 UTC

https://ornc.org/news/coalescence-by-paul-cocksedge-to-arrive-to-the-painted-hall/#:~:text=The%20six%2Dmetre%20diameter%20artwork,and%20dependence%20on%2C%20fossil%20fuels.

'The six-metre diameter artwork is made from over 2,500 pieces of coal with a combined weight of over half a tonne – the amount of coal consumed by a single 200W light bulb in a year. Coalescence was developed by Paul Cocksedge to question our relationship with, and dependence on, fossil fuels.'

Growth of bioluminescent mushrooms (Panellus stipticus)

mariasledmere — 2023-12-12 10:51:09 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cTBlPnB3Wg

1 second of video = approx. 12 hours of growth. The first submarine, ‘Turtle’, developed during the American Revolutionary War, used glowing fungi to illuminate its depth gauge. English coal miners in the 19th century reported fungus on pit props that cast enough light to see their hands by. .

Graeme Macdonald - Research Note: The Resources of Fiction

mariasledmere — 2023-12-12 10:52:26 UTC

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/people/macdonald/119-rct422013macdonaldresources.pdf

Coal is in the Blood anthology

mariasledmere — 2023-12-12 10:53:17 UTC

https://nottinghamcityofliterature.com/blog/coal-in-the-blood-david-amos-and-natalie-braber-tell-is-about-their-new-anthology/

David Thomas - The canary in the coal mine: Tony Harrison and thepoetics of coal, climate, and capital (2016)

mariasledmere — 2023-12-12 10:55:21 UTC

TANGENTS: LETTERS ON ETEL ADNAN PART ONE

mariasledmere — 2023-12-12 10:56:45 UTC

Katy Lewis Hood and Maria Sledmere correspond

'A week ago I was standing looking at a deep red-orange rectangle oozing from the side of a seawall on the northeast coast of England. Closer up you could see the bank was hardened, compacted industrial sludge, interspersed with coal debris. The local colliery had dumped its waste here as a coastal defence measure until its closure in 1994.'

Harryette Mullen 'Still Waiting'

mariasledmere — 2023-12-12 11:05:33 UTC

Petrofictionary

mariasledmere — 2023-12-12 11:07:42 UTC

Editor’s Column: Literature in the Ages ofWood, Tallow, Coal, Whale Oil, Gasoline,Atomic Power, and Other Energy Sources

mariasledmere — 2023-12-12 11:07:57 UTC

mariasledmere — 2023-12-12 11:10:08 UTC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratcliffe-on-Soar_Power_Station

'High Merit': existing English post-war coal and oil-fired power stations in context

mariasledmere — 2023-12-12 11:12:07 UTC

Jason Moore - 'Anthropocene, Capitalocene & the Myth of Industrialization II: From Geology to Geohistory in the Capitalist World-Ecology' (2015)

mariasledmere — 2023-12-12 11:17:09 UTC

https://jasonwmoore.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/anthropocene-capitalocene-the-myth-of-industrialization-ii/

Songs and Rhymes from the Mines

mariasledmere — 2023-12-12 11:22:57 UTC

https://miningheritage.co.uk/songs-and-rhymes-from-the-mines-pleasley-pit/

Coal explained

mariasledmere — 2023-12-12 11:24:49 UTC

Workshop Handout

mariasledmere — 2023-12-13 05:21:25 UTC

QR for handout

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15QD2EONTg5qcLDc1fVK0ZBCzyhK3cYX6kv3KqWZnUso/edit?usp=sharing

Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners

katylh — 2023-12-13 11:18:50 UTC

During the 1980s miners' strike, queer activists from London and other UK cities supported striking miners, trade unions and political organisations, including the Nottinghamshire Women's Support Group. This collective action and struggle has been depicted in the film Pride.

British Geological Survey map

katylh — 2023-12-14 14:01:47 UTC

Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation - Mudstone, siltstone and sandstone. Sedimentary bedrock formed between 318 and 309.5 million years ago during the Carboniferous period.

Notthingamshire Minerals Local Plan (2005)

2023-12-14 14:02:55 UTC

https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/110628/chapter-12-coal.pdf

The Coal Authority Interactive Map

2023-12-14 14:05:28 UTC

‘Transpiration’, from infra.structure

2023-12-14 14:13:07 UTC

This is Katy Lewis Hood’s Oulipian transformation of the poem ‘Transpiration’ which Maria will read in the workshop. The process was to rewrite the poem removing all letters in the word ‘oxygen’.

COALBED

katylh — 2023-12-14 14:22:03 UTC

Please add your coal words here.

NASA - The Water Cycle

2023-12-14 14:22:51 UTC

‘The Way to Keep Going in Arcadia’

2023-12-14 14:34:54 UTC

https://trilobite.bond/past/06/sledmere.html