For PAW 2026, Burngate Purbeck Stone Centre with the support of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics and Purbeck Sounds Radio, brings together a series of events in Purbeck in celebration of geopoetics.

Geopoetics is a movement and a practice — a way of thinking, creating and living in direct relation with the Earth. Rooted in the work of poet and philosopher Kenneth White, it invites us to cross borders of art, science and culture to recover a more vivid, grounded sense of being in the world.

To engage in geopoetics is to walk, to listen, to create — through word, image, sound, movement or form — in conversation with wind, stone and wave. It is a path of attention and imagination, cultivating what White called an Open World: a spacious awareness where creativity and knowledge, intellect and landscape, return once again to a radical field.