Photo (c) Com Hinchley, Yorkshire Peat Partnership
Digging in the Dirt:
Adventures in Ecopoetry
An anthology of new writing
for Give Peat A Chance
Ebook; £2
All profits donated to Give Peat A Chance
'You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt' - Old Aphorism
In August 2025, MK Lit Fest partnered with Poets for the Planet to present a unique event, where four of the UK's most exhilarating practising poets - Clare Shaw, Caleb Parkin, Rishi Dastidar and Jessica Mookherjee - each presented a masterclass that demonstrated their relationship to location and place, and how this is reflected in their poetry and their writing process and practices.
Their writing prompts inspired many of the masterclass participants to submit poems to Poets for the Planet, which have been selected and curated into an ebook pamphlet that features the work of: Eileen Anderson, Anne Cooper, Rene Crouch, Hilary Dunn, Caroline Gill, Richard Law, Nichola May, Michelle McGrane, Elizabeth Osmond, Judy Smith, Dave Wakely and Gail Webb.
Copies of the pamphlet are available for purchase as a PDF ebook for £2, and all profits will be donated to Give Peat A Chance.
About Give Peat A Chance
The Give Peat A Chance fundraiser was launched by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to preserve peatland environments that are thousands of years old. Ancient and iconic landscapes should be a mosaic of vibrant greens, reds and purples. Instead, they are a brown and broken wasteland, and we are at risk of losing them forever. Globally, peatlands are the largest store of carbon on land, holding an estimated twice that stored in all the forests across the world. They're also home to iconic wildlife: Curlew, golden plover, common lizards and field voles all call the peatlands home. YWT are already restoring over 30,000 hectares, but there's still a long way to go. To ensure the survival of these vital and ancient habitats, £100,000 must be raised each year to put their team on the ground.
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This work is supported by funding from
MK Community Foundation