Simon Armitage: Poets can fight climate crisis by making us spellbound by nature

“I think  if we are spellbound and full of wonder and beguiled by nature we’re just less likely to destroy it, we’ll carry on wanting to preserve it.
​That’s my approach.

I wanted to celebrate and to recognise blossom as an incredibly joyful thing but I also wanted to write about the way the weather is upside down and the climate and the environment are in peril…”

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Source: The Guardian

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