Poems for the Planet

Join Us & Hear Some Of Enfield's Poets Julian Bishop, Maggie Butt and Cheryl Moskowitz will read their own poetry addressing the emerging ecological crisis, exploring themes such as global heating, rising sea levels and retreating ice-caps, extreme meteorological events, habitat loss and species loss - offering a creative examination of the impact of human activity on our planet, in a presentation that is both interrogative and redemptive. Their pamphlet of eco-poetry will be on sale at the event which raises funds for environmental charities. Julian Bishop is a former television journalist living in North London who is working on his first pamphlet which explores the impact of the climate emergency on our natural world. He was runner-up in the 2018 international Ginkyo Prize for Eco Poetry and shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize in the previous year. He is a member of several London Stanza groups and runs a regular contemporary poetry workshop in Enfield. Maggie Butt is an ex journalist and BBC TV producer turned poet and novelist. Her fifth poetry collection was Degrees of Twilight (The London Magazine 2015). Her novel The Prisoner’s Wife under the name Maggie Brookes is was published in May 2020 in the UK, USA and Canada. She taught Creative Writing at Middlesex University for 30 years and is a Royal Literary Fund advisory fellow. Cheryl Moskowitz is a poet, novelist and translator. Together with her musician husband, Alastair Gavin, she hosts the All Saints Sessions, a poetry and electronic performance series in a candlelit 15th century church in Edmonton, North London. She is a Magma Poetry editor, facilitates writing in wide areas of the community and was tutor of Creative Writing and Personal Development MA at Sussex University from 1996 tom 2000. She has published one novel and two poetry collections