Go to the Fair Acre Bookshop to find out more, and to buy the Poetry on Stinging Nettles ebook Available in either PDF format or ePub £2.99, with monies donated to Plantlife Also available in the Maligned Species series are Poetry ebooks on – Spiders, Grey Squirrels and Frogs.
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Poetry on Frogs ebook and PDF now on sale
Go to the Fair Acre Bookshop to find out more, and to buy the Poetry on Frogs ebook Available in either PDF format or ePub £2.99, with monies donated toFroglife Also available in the Maligned Species series are Poetry ebooks on – Spiders, Grey Squirrels and Stinging Nettles
Spiders and Grey Squirrels ebooks, or as PDFs, now on sale
The Poetry on Spiders and Poetry on Grey Squirrels ebooks are now available at £2.99 each. ALSO on Saturday 13th February – there is a poetry on grey squirrels event at Shropshire Wildlife Trust, Shrewsbury – details here
Podcast on Nadia Kingsley
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 […]
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″ […]
