Welcome to the first of 7 podcasts from the DIVERSIFLY project. In this podcast you will join Brett Westwood and Nadia Kingsley on an Urban Bird Walk, in the centre of Stourbridge, West Midlands Brett jointly won the Thomson Reuters/Zoological Record Award for Communicating Zoology with Stephen Moss for the book and radio series Tweet of the Day, […]
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New: A Year in Herbs
A Year in Herbs is a celebration of twelve herbs used in modern herbal medicine – through prose, poetry and artwork. And a celebration of medical herbalist Jayne Palmer opening a shop and treatment room on the High Street of Honiton, in Devon. Nadia Kingsley has been writing a poem a month for the past two […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Jonathan Edwards
Welcome ! Here is a podcast with poet Jonathan Edwards. How would you write about – a seal, a hippopotamus, your grandfather? Jonathan also treats us to poems about Houdini, the Covent Garden Theatre in 1775, his father and reveals how he approaches a subject. In conversation with Nadia Kingsley, Jonathan Edwards reads and discusses some of […]
Podcast on Liz Lefroy
Welcome ! Here is a podcast with poet Liz Lefroy How would you write about – Michelangelo’s David, your son’s school concert, or a busker in London? Liz tells us how she approaches a subject, and also treats us to some fact-based poems from her pamphlet Mending the Ordinary, and poems written about parts of an […]
Podcast on Poet Tom Wentworth
Welcome ! Here is a podcast with poet and playwright Tom Wentworth How would you write about – a butterfly called the Gatekeeper, the White letter hairstreak, or even the moon? In conversation with Nadia Kingsley, Tom Wentworth reads and discusses some of his poems, his scripts and how he writes. […]
the Poetry on Spiders ebook cover
Would you like YOUR poem to be included in the Poetry on Spiders ebook ? – it will be available to buy from February 2016; and will be adorned by this wonderful cover by artist Giancarlo Facchinetti If so – check back here in January 2016 – to see how to submit your poem(s) The Maligned Species project […]