Welcome ! Here is a podcast with poet Nadia Kingsley. How would you write about –the Common Mouse Ear plant, the Andromeda Galaxy, or wildlife within a project about Olympic athletes? Nadia tells us how she approaches a subject, and also treats us to some fact-based poems from Shropshire Butterflies, Lawn Lore, e-x-p-a-n-d-i-n-g: The history […]
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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, […]
the podcast team – Nadia Kingsley, presenter
When I had the idea for the Maligned Species project I had not thought through how the podcasts would really work. Tom Wentworth, our producer – excelled in his research of different podcasts – then declared, to my horror, that he wanted my voice kept in when it came to the editing. Luckily, I have made several appearances […]
Poems for Maligned Species ebooks welcomed !!
Happy New Year from the Maligned Species project! 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… […]
