Nature Persists is an experimental poetry & embodiment practice space for gentle but determined creativity for those living in big cities.

  • ignite imagination, reconnect with nature

  • Let nature teach you sustainable self-care

  • refresh & develop your writing practice by exploring nature in big cities

  • rooting yourself in a creative well-being practice

  • Discover & be inspired by the body’s natural defence against urban energy drain.

What can Urban Nature Teach You About Being Human?

t is a hybrid online and in-person menu of courses and programs which are holistically structured to encourage reconnection to the quiet power of nature so that we can flex the muscle of sustainable well-being in the urban environment.

Using poetry to explore how we reconnect with the body’s natural defences against urban energy drain, Nature Persists is an experimental poetics & embodiment practice space for gentle but determined writing for those living in big cities.

It is an initiative spearheaded by founder and facilitator Zena Edwards, and developed through her practice of embodiment and the writing of poetry for well-being.

Nature Persists Poetry

EcoPoetry is a poetic lexicon of 21st Century. Its imagery, cadence and sentiment shrinks the world till the borders between the natural world and urbanity dissipate." - Zena Edwards