Just over a year ago I interviewed Matthew Oates on the subject of Stinging Nettles – for the Arts Council England-funded project “Maligned Species” You can hear that less than 20 minute podcast here TOMORROW our kickstarter campaign closes – and your ONLY chance to buy a limited edition hardback copy of Matthew Oates’ new […]
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Poetry on Spiders ebook!
An anthology of poems about the humble british spiders… Here is one of the poems, by Costa prize winning Jonathan Edwards: Here’s to the Spiders Jonathan Edwards whose At-At legs say Pah to every plughole. Who make their names in bathtubs and the screeching of humans. Who are victims […]
Examples of Nadia Kingsley & Giancarlo Facchinetti’s recent work
1. Click below to listen to/download the fifth out of nine ‘chapters’ – recorded from a live continuous performance in a mobile planetarium dome, which was performed at Birmingham Art & Science Festival,Wenlock Poetry Festival, Stratford Literary Festival and Birmingham Literature Festival. Music/soundscapes: Giancarlo Facchinetti. Voices, in order of appearance: Professor Trevor Ponman, astrophysicist; Emma Purshouse – poet; Nadia Kingsley […]
Poems welcomed/ last podcast (for now)
You may well have already written a poem – if so, hooray ! If you haven’t – you have until the end of January ! Maligned Species is an Arts Council England funded project – hoping to encourage YOU to write poetry with a more scientific slant than you are, perhaps, used to… […]
the podcast team – Tom Wentworth, producer
I’d forgotten that Tom Wentworth almost did a degree in drama. But luckily for the Maligned Species project he decided on a radio degree, at the University of Glamorgan, and achieved a first. He has been script editor in BBC’s Casualty. He has produced the Radio 4 Afternoon Drama It takes Two to Lie. He has […]
Poems on Stinging Nettles, Grey Squirrels, Frogs and Spiders welcomed
Please do send your poems in – having read the guidelines, and learned more about the Maligned Species project, and the brief for these poems here. We have already received some extraordinary poems that warrant reading and re-reading, as well as poems commissioned from nine poets that include Costa Poetry prize winner Jonathan Edwards. More […]
Podcast on Andrew Fusek Peters
Welcome ! Here is a podcast with poet Andrew Fusek Peters. How would you write about – a blackbird, a hare or write a poem about knitting that at its heart is about the environment? Andrew tells us how he approaches a subject, reads poems about a heron and a salmon, and reveals how […]
the podcast team – Giancarlo Facchinetti, sound engineer and editor
Giancarlo Facchinetti has developed skills as a sound engineer – first through creating recordings of his own music, and then honing these skills in the astrophysics project e-x-p-a-n-d-i-n-g: The History of the Universe in 45 minutes. Before the Maligned Species project he had not had any previous experience of editing podcasts or the spoken word. During […]
Podcast on Keith Chandler
Welcome ! Here is a podcast with poet Keith Chandler. How would you write about – a grayling butterfly, a goldsmith’s apprentice or a chemo nurse? Keith treats us to poems about a fisherman, glassworkers, a tragic news item, and reveals how he approaches a subject. In conversation with Nadia Kingsley. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/240670750″ […]
Poems on Spiders, Grey Squirrels, Stinging Nettles and Frogs welcomed!
We do hope you have been enjoying the podcasts and the writing from our four ecologists and nine poets. Maligned Species is an Arts Council England funded project – hoping to encourage YOU to write poetry with a more scientific slant than you are, perhaps, used to… Through reading the prompts written by Brett Westwood, […]