Welcome to Nature Persists, an explorative poetry & empathic sensory project for gentle but determined creativity for those living in towns and big cities.
Nature Persists is a menu of courses made to encourage reconnection to the quiet power of nature in urban environments.
Nature Persists poetry and creative programs explore how we can reconnect with the body’s natural defences against urban energy drain.
Learn and integrate what it means to have a calming and consistent routine to strengthen ‘the muscle of the imagination’ and for energised creativity.
Be inspired to write for well-being while living in a town or big city.
What can urban nature teach us about being human?
Nature Persists is a hybrid online and in-person bespoke menu of courses and programs structured to encourage reconnection to the quiet power of nature.
Nature Persists poetry and creative programs explore how we can reconnect with the body’s natural defences against urban energy drain.
Explore sensory and sensorial literary techniques and learn what it means to have be gentle but determined practice for imagining, creating and writing for well-being while living in big cities.
It is an initiative spearheaded by founder and facilitator Zena Edwards, and developed through her practice of empathic and somatic 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
