Join Joanna Pocock for a creative writing and nature observation session exploring how we can enter the beingness of plant and animal kin and find language for how the natural world is adapting to climate change.

Drawing on Aldo Leopold's essay Thinking Like a Mountain, participants will wander the reserve and choose a being - a leaf, a stone, a newt, a bat asleep in its tower and tune into its experience of the changing world around it. Through writing, observation and listening, we explore what it means to adapt, and what connections exist between the human and more-than-human world. Participants will share their notes, poems or letters with the group in a closing circle. No writing experience needed. Please bring a pen or pencil if possible.

Date & Time: Saturday 26th September 2026, 2pm - 3:30pm 

Location: Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, Middleton Street, E2 9RR 

Cost: Free, no booking required 

Meeting Point: Bethnal Green Nature Reserve entrance on Middleton Street

Please note: places are limited to 15 per session. Early arrival is recommended.

Joanna Pocock is an environmental writer whose work blends memoir and reportage with ecological concerns. Her books Surrender and Greyhound are published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and Soft Skull Press. In 2021 she was awarded an Arts Foundation Fellowship in Environmental Writing. Her work focuses on extraction, ecology and the marks humans leave on the planet. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of the Arts, London.

Instagram: @pocockjoanna