Click here – and go to 2 hours 15 mins to hear Jim Hawkins from Radio Shropshire in conversation with poet Nadia Kingsley and ecologist John Handley about Maligned Species project (lasts 10 to 15 mins) This will be available to listen to on the BBC player throughout November 2015
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On meeting Matthew Oates
Despite a drizzly overcast day, I am beaming, when Matthew Oates arrives for this podcast recording in Cheltenham, immediately after he has been at an event at Cheltenham Literature Festival 2015, based on his book “In Pursuit of Butterflies”. Matthew has been extraordinarily kind to me over the past 5 years, after he heard that […]
Writing on Stinging Nettles
Tall Nettles Matthew Oates, autumn 2015 – on Stinging Nettles, with a poem from Edward Thomas Be Nice to Nettles Week came and went, having stung no one into action. A highly successful ruderal dicotyledonous plant forming monospecific stands by rhizome spread… The stinging nettle is, after all, the most abundant broad-leaved plant in the […]
Podcast on Stinging Nettles
Welcome! Here is a podcast on Stinging Nettles: Matthew Oates tells us in what way Stinging Nettles and Man are similar, as well as many fascinating facts about how their stings actually work, and what benefits from their presence – we hope you enjoy it and click here to find more podcasts, writing, and details about […]
On meeting Brett Westwood
Visiting naturalist Brett Westwood, and walking with him round the block, in Stourbridge, West Midlands I had met Brett once before – when he had very kindly travelled up to Morville in Shropshire to listen to poetry and see some art in Morville Church, hosted by Katherine Swift, author of The Morville Hours: at the […]
Writing on Spiders, from Brett Westwood
7/10/2015 DIADEMS AND DEW: GARDEN SPIDERS After a week of high pressure, this morning the garden is drenched in October rain and the full extent of the takeover is there to see, picked out in glistening droplets. Every bush is festooned with the sagging geometry of webs, stretched out of shape by their dewy burden, […]
Podcast on spiders, by Brett Westwood
Welcome! Here is a podcast on Spiders: Brett Westwood tells us why we find spiders in the bath, as well as many fascinating facts about these eight-legged creatures – we hope you enjoy it Part of the Maligned Species project: a free online resource involving both ecologists and poets – the aim is to encourage poetry-writing on […]
Introducing the Maligned Species team: David Calcutt
Poet, Playwright, Novelist: David Calcutt David Calcutt is a playwright, poet and novelist. He has written many plays for the theatre and for BBC radios 3 and 4. Several of his plays for young people are published by Oxford University Press. He has also published three novels with Oxford and one with Barefoot Books. He […]
Why Maligned Species?
Why are we running this project? Our editor, Nadia Kingsley noticed that, when she was editing our very first book Shropshire Butterflies – a poetic and artistic guide to the butterflies of Shropshire that there is an accepted general love for butterflies, and a general dislike for moths – some of which are far more […]
