This anthology is concerned with climate change and human interventions, the project has invited 26 writers to respond to a choice of themes based on climate change issues critical to Cornwall and the rest of the world.

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26 Voices for Change

26 Voices for Change is an anthology of Cornish writers brought together under the general theme of climate change. Many of the writers have contributed new work, written or developed between the period of the 2021 G7 ‘summit’ of ‘world ‘leaders’ held at Carbis Bay, Penwith, Cornwall in June and the COP 26 ‘summit’ of world ‘leaders’ in Glasgow, in November. While the world and its various authorities grapple with the complexities of uniting in action together as nation states, the planet has its own way of dealing with such crises.

Our collective representative Governments seem dwarfed by the scale of action required. Sometimes they appear inadequate in their limited power and influence. They are often distracted by short term electoral priorities, or simply in awe of profitability over sustainability. The danger is that a negative legacy may be all that history will make of our time. A legacy of indecisiveness, and an inability to consider that our industrious human ingenuity masks deeper, more dangerous flaws. We have modernised and built a human architecture on the flimsiest of foundations.

Our planet’s atmosphere is proportionally less in thickness than our skin is to our body. Like the dimensions of space and time we have trouble conceiving of the sheer scale of change required. Which is why we asked some Cornish writers to tell us something about the present in which we stand, and how we might imagine this future that is moving toward us.

co-editors
Mac Dunlop and Megan Chapman

Writers Include

Philip Marsden
Martha Tilston
Penelope Shuttle
Hedluv – of Hedluv and Passman
Des Hannigan
Katrina Naomi
Annamaria Murphy
Taran Spalding-Jenkin

Jaime Lock
Tara Montane
Kerrie Vincent
Caroline Carver
Annamaria Murphy
David Devanney
Andrew Fentham
Bert Biscoe
Paul Temmes
Polly Roberts
Rosie Hadden
Morag Smith
Elaine Ruth White
Annie Lovejoy
Paul Farmer