On the creation of new ecological writing

This interview outlines the development of new creative work that straddles the boundaries of genre – particularly between poetry and lyric essay. It reflects on Pirmohamed's research on nature poetry by racialised writers, and the porosity of labels including ‘radical landscape poetry’ and ‘ecopoetics’. The interview explores the development of practice-led methodologies, such as embodied reading and writing within natural landscapes, collaborative artmaking across disciplines, and Pirmohamed's facilitation of ‘Our Time Is A Garden’, a poetry workshop series in partnership with The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish BPOC Writers Network. Also included within the interview are extracts from a poem in progress, ‘Freewrite with Lake District Mist’.