It's Freezing in LA! Special Edition: To Stand on Shifting Ground

It’s Freezing in LA! is a critically-acclaimed platform for climate writing and images. They find detailed, complex and fascinating new topics and make them accessible, engaging and exciting. They have built a space that fuses art, politics and science while platforming brilliant emerging and under-represented writers and illustrators in the climate movement. They publish a bi-annual, 60 page collection that dives into difficult environmental questions, and in Spring 2023 they launched a digital platform.

IN THIS SPECIAL EDITION: 
'How do we connect to the places in which we live? How do we deepen those connections when they are jeopardised by that long systemic grind - quieting bird-song we used to wake to, paving over earth we used to stand on? And what about those who wield outsized power and seek yet more - how do people resist extractive pollution or forceful eviction? How should we connect to new places?

It was a desire to explore land-connection amid the climate crises that inspired a global call out for the poems that form this collection. Curation brought more questions: do we define the lands that sustain us or do we have definitions imposed upon us? How could we say where these poems came from without reinforcing colonial boundaries? Our valued partners in curation for this issue, BA (Hons) Culture, Criticism and Curation students from Central Saint Martins, proposed looking to the Land itself for answers, organising the collection around the Earth's tectonic plates, which wander, collide, and nurture, just as we do. 

The poems in this collection reflect and embody questions about land connection. Spanning the Eurasian Plate to the Sunda Plate, they also reflect IFLA!'s growing global network. Together, they remind us that land wants to grow richer - life seeks life. Even the earth beneath our feet is ever renewing itself - there is plenty to hold and be held by - if we are willing to let it.' (Words by editor Jackson Howarth) 

Published by It's Freezing in LA!
Softcover
32 pages
125 x 180 mm
ISSN 2517725712