Our Time Is A Garden: New Nature Writing by Women and Nonbinary Writers of Colour

Abstract

OUR TIME IS A GARDEN is part of a larger research project on radical landscape poetry led by Dr Alycia Pirmohamed, Junior Anniversary Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh. Five workshops were co-facilitated by artists and academics working in various areas of ecological writing. All the writers included in this pamphlet attended this workshop series as either attendees or guest speakers. The programme was open to poets at all stages in their careers and from any educational background. It aimed to develop writing skills and promote knowledge exchange by sharing interdisciplinary art and research. Dr Shari Sabeti (University of Edinburgh) joined the course as a researcher of arts education to help explore how these sessions contributed to accessible learning, activism, and a sense of belonging or identity formation for participants. The workshops also aimed to decolonise the literary arts in Scotland, primarily by supporting the development of, and creating space for, new na