Paperboats is a collective of writers focussed on nature and environment in a time of climate and ecological breakdown. We are Scotland based and global in outlook, and write to affirm the astonishing life of this planet, and how its future may yet be shaped.
Issue Seven: Edens. Featuring poetry and prose by: Shara McCallum, Margaret Elphinstone, Donald Adamson, Cate Bone, Al McClimens, Alex Nye, Peter Cashorali, Dave Wynne-Jones, Gillian Dawson, Emily Alice Spivey, Ian Grosz, Genevieve Carver, Kathleen Madigan, Susan Elsley, Ross Crawford, Robin Fulton Macpherson, Morag Smith, Ian McDonough, Gordon Kennedy, Deborah Leslie & Stephen Paul Wren.
In such worrying times, it can be tempting to find refuge in the nostalgic, the imaginary and the fantastical. Reading the submissions for this edition of Paperboats has, however, become a lesson on grounding ourselves in the real.
Poetry or prose, fiction or nonfiction, past present or future, tell us your energy story.
In each episode writer and researcher Ian Grosz talks with a different writer from the Paperboats collective – a group of writers working across Scotland and beyond to highlight the impacts of climate change, the ecological collapse we are witness to, and the things we can do to bring about positive change.
