1. 'Return' is a lyrical meditation on the Anthropocene that mingles the intimate and the eternal, the biological and the inanimate, the domestic with a sense of deep time, as it seeks to envision transcendence. A collaboration with artist Raluca Popa.
2. 'Kiss Me' is a poetic and immersive voyage into the growing world of plants to rediscover love and explore how to re-entangle ourselves with nature’s sentience and beauty. A collaboration with artist Ruxandra Mitache.
3. AWOL means absent without notice or permission. Based on a true story, this is a video poem trying to resist materialism and consumerism. Created in collaboration with visual artists Dan Perjovschi and Raluca Popa.
The project is part of the subtheme Climate Crisis and Poetry.
Author
Simona Nastac
Simona Nastac is a London-based award-winning poet and curator. In 2017 she published The Depressing Colour of Honey (Tracus Arte, Bucharest), which won the Alexandru Mușina Prize for poetry debuts. Her work has been featured in Harana Poetry, Tears in the Fence, Apricity Press, and Black Bough Poetry among others. In 2016 she created the Experimental Poetry Night at the annual Bucharest International Festival of Poetry, which she curated until 2019. Her poetry evokes reverence for art, nature, and delicate chaos.
