TALK: Abundance - Nature in Recovery with Karen Lloyd

Abundance - Nature in Recovery with Karen Lloyd
7-8pm on Tuesday 23rd July
Tickets from £10. Click here to purchase. Tickets available to buy online until 4pm on Monday 22nd July. Remainig tickets available through Reception on the day of the event.

Join writer-in-residence Karen Lloyd for an evening of hope here at Gladstone’s Library!

Karen’s latest book works on the key principle that even against the dire implications of the climate emergency, humans are capable of creating meaningful projects to help the natural environment repair and recover. As Karen will explore this evening, while researching Abundance she met people carrying out astonishing acts of restoration, such as bringing the Imperial Eagle back from the brink of extinction in Hungary, or re-planting Carpathian forests on a vast scale.

While not ignoring the climate emergency – as we know, it’s very much with us – Karen’s work is resolutely focused on recovery and growth, as well as how to treat our own role in the climate emergency with compassion, and those most affected by it, with dignity.

Karen Lloyd is a writer and tutor whose work engages with the environment through literature and the arts. Her aim is that her writing helps to generate understanding amongst non-specialist readers of climate research, biodiversity, and regeneration. As well as writing long-form non-fiction and poetry Karen also publishes journalism, speaks at festivals, and works with broadcasters.

Karen’s first book, The Gathering Tide (2015) was selected as an author’s book of the year in 2015 in The Observer and Abundance – the book that won her residency here at Gladstone’s – was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize in 2022 for writing on conservation. As well as writing about her own locale in the North-West of England, her work also explores environmental and social concerns across boundaries; her current project explores social and environmental justice in a number of countries including Costa Rica, Spain and the UK.

Tickets from £10. Click here to purchase.

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