Elemental: Water

Elemental: Water

A celebration of water in all its forms, Elemental gathers new poems by writers of all ages who live in or have a connection with Cambridge. Discover poems about waterfalls and waterbirds and watercolour paintings. Poems about rising tides and threatened chalk streams. Poems that praise the world’s rivers alongside the dishwater in a kitchen sink. Poems embracing Cambridge’s local waters – the Fens, the Cam – as well as distant oceans.

What a pleasure to stretch out here and let these words of water wash over in a sitting. Water, its being and nature, its waterscapes and watermarks are all explored here within many themes, memories and poetic retelling. – Emma Montlake, Environmental Law Foundation

This eye-opening anthology is a small wonder. Its imaginative reckonings of human interactions with the natural world can only help us to appreciate and value water, the matter of life, with increased sensitivity and awe. – Dr Tom Appleby, Blue Marine Foundation

Curated by Mark Wormald, Peter Carpenter & Michael McKimm for Elemental Poetry Cambridge

Poets:
Anagha Abrol, Esme Beaumont, Di Beddow, Clare Best, Sienna Black, Jade Cuttle, Matthias Ediger, Lindsay Fursland, Vona Groarke, Geoffrey Heptonstall, Veronica Hua, Heather, Skye Irvine, Millie Jeffery, Nikolai Kazantsev, Heather Leigh, Dan Leighton, Tom Ling, Martine Maugue, Sarah McHugh, Jane Monson, Jonathan Morley, Matilda Myatt, Kate Noble, Maria Omena, Mila Ottevanger, Helen Pletts, Kate Robinson, Anna Saintonge, Sonji Shah, Mary Shanahan, Amira Skeggs, Jon Stone, Alice Tofaris, David Thomas, Daisy Tozer, Pierre Musa Halime Wessel, Kitty Wansell, Travis Wright, Rodin Zavarei, Zuyi Zhang