Pens of the Earth

Pens has an article on the Writers Rebel website called Collective Voices. Written by Rachel Birchley and Helen Salsbury, it’s a celebration of the Pens community, the creative and co-operative energy behind the success of Wild Seas, Wilder Cities, and the subtle revolution which inspired us.

Pens of the Earth will be at Greening Denmead’s Fun Day on Sat 17th May, 11am – 3pm. There will be food and drink, community project, kids activities and the chance to win a recycled laptop. Entry is free! Details here.

Wild Seas, Wilder Cities is launching on the Isle of Wight, 7pm Saturday 26th April, hosted at the Medina Bookshop and compered by island poet Maggie Sawkins.

The evening will feature writers and poets reading selections from the book, guest speakers from the Island Seagrass Project, and a talk by Jamie Marsh, director of Nature Recovery for the Isle Of Wight and Hampshire.

Tickets are £5, redeemable against sales of the book, and available here.

Our latest transfer of funds to HIWWT for the Solent Seagrass Restoration Project brings our grand total to just over £4000!

Thanks to all of you who have supported us in making this milestone figure!

The Kindle ebook of Wild Seas, Wilder Cities is now available from Amazon.co.uk.

We’ve just transferred £1,620 to HIWWT for the Solent Seagrass Restoration Project – the amount we raised at our launch from sales of tickets, books and litter art. Give yourselves all a pat on the back!

But we’re not done yet: the book has only just found its way into the world and needs your help to branch out. Christmas is on its way (I know, I know) so why not get a copy for a friend or family member?

Thanks to everyone who came to our book launch. If you weren’t able to make it (or just fancy reliving some of the highlights) Jackie Green has written up a report of the evening  here.

This is to regretfully announce that nine sponsors who helped fund the publication of Wild Seas, Wilder Cities via our Crowdfunder were not acknowledged in the book due to an administrative error. This will be rectified in our forthcoming ebook and any future editions of the paperback.

In the meantime we’d like to express our deep gratitude to the following sponsors:

• Jackie Arnold
• Janet Brown
• Carol Dowie
• Martine Egan
• Sue Harper
• Gail and Jon Loose
• Loree Westron
• Ruth Wilkinson
• Sandra Wilkinson & Jeremy Pack
• And also those sponsors who chose to remain anonymous.

We’ve published four poems that were commended in our ‘Community’ competition. You can read them here.

Our Instagram page has been rejuvenated, under the discerning eye of Peter Brown, one of the artists contributing to our book. You can check it out here.