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… […]
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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 […]
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. click here […]
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… […]
artist Peter Tinkler – on Stinging Nettles cover art
I have known Peter Tinkler for some years now – in fact – it must have been ten years since we first started spending time together – ALWAYS with the one proviso – on my part: that Peter has to bring his sketch books with him ! Peter was educated in Ireland, studied illustration and animation in […]
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 […]
the Poetry on Grey Squirrels ebook cover
Would you like YOUR poem to be included in the Poetry on Grey Squirrels ebook? – which will be available to buy from February 2016; and will be adorned by this wonderfully grey and fluffy-tailed cover by artist Rhys Bevan Jones If so – check back here in January 2016 – to see how to submit your […]
artist Rhys Bevan Jones – on Grey Squirrels cover art
Rhys Bevan Jones and I are cousins. His design in 1999 was chosen as the logo for the Bro’r Preseli Urdd National Eisteddfod in Crymych, and I have inherited, from my mother, a wonderful original cartoon by Rhys: “The life and times of food and drink – A carrot and I” – which was runner up […]
the Poetry on Frogs ebook cover
Would you like YOUR poem to be included in the Poetry on Frogs ebook? – which will be available to buy from February 2016; and will be adorned by this wonderfully delightful cover by artist Paul Kielty If so – check back here in January 2016 – to see how to submit your poem(s) The Maligned Species […]
