Ilse Pedler, Hilary Watson, Alice Willitts
Thrutopia - Writing the Future Workshop
So much current ecopoetry focuses on destruction and despair. In this workshop we’ll teach you about the concept of thrutopia and a way of writing about a future that is thriving, desirable and possible.
We’ll lead you through a series of exercises and prompts to activate your curiosity, exercise your imagination and show you how thrutopian poems can guide transformation.
- Ilse Pedler lives in Cumbria. Her first collection Auscultation was published in 2021 by Seren. She is the poet in residence at Sidmouth Folk festival
- Hilary Watson lives in Cardiff. She was a Jerwood/Arvon mentee and graduated from the University of Warwick Writing Programme. Her first poetry collection is forthcoming.
- Alice Willitts is a poet and plantswoman from the Fens. She believes in putting hope into action co-creating DIRT plantable poetry and is the author of six books including Kiss My Earth (Blue Diode) out now
- Friday, 13th March 2026
- 3:30pm
- Circle Gallery
- £12.00
