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We’re all now familiar with the familiar narrative of environmental destruction, and how it will probably end. But how about those writers who seek to re-imagine this story, whose alternative environmental narratives provide a different lens for viewing what we think we know? This afternoon’s reading will feature two poets who do just that. Claire Crowther’s Solar Cruise tells the story of a relationship between a poet and a physicist who is devoted to solar energy, enquiring into the similarities and differences between the ways artists and scientists negotiate their relationship with readers / societies and the formal parameters of their disciplines. J.O. Morgan’s The Martian’s Regress tells many stories within one story, imagining a whole genre of folktales, nursery songs, myths and histories which inform the titular Martian’s upbringing and their resultant understanding of the world.

This event has been supported by EventScotland as part of Year of Stories 2022.