‘Mini Poems About the Elements’ is a limited edition sequence of poetic scratchcards that accompanies the anthology of Indigenous visual poetry, To Feel the Earth As One’s Skin, which was published by Poem Atlas in 2024.

The anthology showcases Indigenous voices from around the world, including Cecilia Vicuña, Chi Nwosu, Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole, Sasha Stiles, Bruno Canadien, Tracey Tawhiao, Solange Aguilar, Ammon Hāwea Apiata, Joely Bigeagle-Kequahtooway, Lorne Kequahtooway, Nevada Lynn, and more. To Feel the Earth As One’s Skin is edited by Lara Felsing, Marama Salsano and Astra Papachristodoulou.

Concerned with playing too much? Worry not, too much poetry never harmed anyone.

Scratchcard Mini Poems About the Elements

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Lara Felsing a Métis interdisciplinary artist, writer and mother from Alberta, Canada. She has an MFA from the Emily Carr University of Art & Design in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her practice explores kinship to the natural world and advocates for the necessity of living in reciprocity with the land and all living beings. Traditional plant harvesting is at the core of her practice.

Marama Salsano (Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Wairere) is a māmā, writer, and multidisciplinary artist. Marama has an MA in Tikanga Māori from Waikato University, and an MA in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University in Wellington, where she is also a PhD candidate. Her critical-creative contributions are published in various anthologies and journals.

Astra Papachristodoulou is a poet and curator from Rhodes, Greece. Her doctoral project at the University of Surrey, UK, explored sculptural poetics as a revolutionary act in the context of the Anthropocene. Her work is often about ecological degradation and social injustice. Astra is the author of several poetry books including Constellations, Stargazing and Selected Variations for Bees (all published by Guillemot Press).

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