Courage
Courage
The evolution of a thought about courage in the Anthropocene
A poetic lyric essay
kin’d & kin’d
Kay Syrad & Clare Whistler
The New School of the Anthropocene
July 2024
Kay Syrad
kaysyrad.co.uk
Clare Whistler
clarewhistler.co.uk
© 2024 Elephant Press
All rights reserved
Copyright remains with individual poets
ISBN 978-1-0687729-0-0
Published on 11 September 2024 by Elephant Press
Designed by Raphael Whittle
Printed by Printopia Press Ltd
Climate neutral printing
Courage
The evolution of a thought about courage in the Anthropocene
A poetic lyric essay
kin’d & kin’d
Kay Syrad & Clare Whistler
The New School of the Anthropocene
July 2024
Kay Syrad
kaysyrad.co.uk
Clare Whistler
clarewhistler.co.uk
© 2024 Elephant Press
All rights reserved
Copyright remains with individual poets
ISBN 978-1-0687729-0-0
Published on 11 September 2024 by Elephant Press
Designed by Raphael Whittle
Printed by Printopia Press Ltd
Climate neutral printing
Courage
The evolution of a thought about courage in the Anthropocene
A poetic lyric essay
kin’d & kin’d
Kay Syrad & Clare Whistler
The New School of the Anthropocene
July 2024
Kay Syrad
kaysyrad.co.uk
Clare Whistler
clarewhistler.co.uk
© 2024 Elephant Press
All rights reserved
Copyright remains with individual poets
ISBN 978-1-0687729-0-0
Published on 11 September 2024 by Elephant Press
Designed by Raphael Whittle
Printed by Printopia Press Ltd
Climate neutral printing
A Cloak of Courage was conceived by eco-poets kin’d & kin’d (Kay Syrad & Clare Whistler) and designed and made by Larch Rose. The Cloak is in two parts, made from vintage organdie cotton, 300 x160cm, embroidered using an Irish embroidery machine.
In the evolution of our thoughts about courage at this time of eco-crisis, we wanted to focus on the other-than-human so there are 48 pockets in the Cloak, 47 containing natural objects gathered locally near our homes in East Sussex.
The other pocket contains the drawings of the sound-waves of each of the objects as we imagined them. The embroidered lines are taken from our writings in the presence of the objects over several months.
Thanks are due to the RSA, whose theme this year is courage, and to the New School of Anthropocene, London, where our project began.
