It's Not Easy Being Green: A Year of Trying to be Environmentally Friendly: A Poetry Diary: A Verse a Day for a Year

Poet Caroline Burrows / VerseCycle wrote 'It's Not Easy Being Green: A Year of Trying to be Environmentally Friendly' a verse a day for an entire year, about her successes and failures in trying to lower her carbon footprint, during what turned out to be a very eventful year, all summarised in her final verse No.367: I started these verses to try being eco-friendly/I didn't realise they'd become like my diary/As well as being greener/I got an MA;Dated a Mr. Wrong/Had a break-down/Friends showed me better ways/Two very special people died/No-one predicted a pandemic/All this nearly made me forget about Bloody Brexit/It's not easy being green; But maybe being greener was the easy bit. The project went from daily posts on social media; to a social engagement video project with guest speakers recording verses during lockdowns in the pandemic; and was shortlisted for the Sustainability First Arts Prize.

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Caroline Burrows' poetry has featured on BBC Radio 4, been printed in BBC Sky at Night Magazine, shown at the Sheffield Adventure and Kendal Mountain Film Festivals, and short-listed for the Sustainability First Art Prize. Her own one-woman poetry show by bike 'Turning Pedals into Poems' was shortlisted for the 2023 Saboteur Awards, and also gained her a place in Cycling UK's #100WomenInCycling 2022. She has previously worked on poetry commissions for Glenside Hospital Museum, Bristol Ideas, and Triodos the Ethical Bank. She was most recently Poet in Residence at Cromarty Arts Trust. Her next poetry endeavour will be teaching and performing poetry as part of the Gaia/Earth installation at Durham Cathedral. Her short stories have been published in The National Flash Fiction Anthology and The Charles Causley Trust, and she has written articles for several publishers including Cycling UK & Adventure Cyclist magazines.

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