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 […]
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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 [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/227888090″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Part of the Maligned Species project: a free online resource involving both ecologists and poets – […]
Introducing the Maligned Species team: Nadia Kingsley
Poet, Scientist, Artist, Writer, Nadia Kingsley Nadia Kingsley is a poet and short story writer, as well as being editor of Fair Acre Press. She is part of the poet/musician/astrophysicist team behind e-x-p-a-n-d-i-n-g: the history of the Universe in 45 minutes performance. She is writing a poem a month for a herbal blog www.rootstohealth.co.uk and has […]
Introducing the Maligned Species team: Andrew Fusek Peters
Poet, Photographer, Author, Andrew Fusek Peters Andrew Fusek Peters is a prolific poet and author with over 100 published books. His poetry is recorded for the Poetry Archive. His poems have also appeared on Poetry Please, Radio 3 Words and Music and the BBC1 Poetry Series Wham Bam Strawberry Jam. His collections include Leaves Are […]
Introducing the Maligned Species team: Tom Wentworth
Playwright, Writer, Radio producer Tom Wentworth. Tom Wentworth is a playwright. Recent theatre credits include: Heart of Hearts (Graeae Theatre Company’s Write To Play) and Windy Old Fossils (Pentabus.) He is also an audio producer including, It Takes Two To Lie (Afternoon Drama, BBC Radio 4) and is producing the Maligned Species podcast. As an […]
Introducing the Maligned Species team: Liz Lefroy
Poet, Liz Lefroy. Liz Lefroy won the 2011 Roy Fisher Prize resulting in the publication of her first pamphlet, Pretending the Weather (Long Face Press). Her sequence, The Gathering, was set to music by Brian Evans and premiered at the St Chad’s Music Festival, Shrewsbury in 2012. Mending The Ordinary was published by Fair […]
Introducing the Maligned Species team: Keith Chandler
Poet, Keith Chandler. Keith Chandler moved to Bridgnorth from Norfolk four years ago. Since being selected for Ten English Poets (Carcanet) in 1977, his poetry has been published in four collections: Kett’s Rebellion (Carcanet, 1982), A Passing Trade (OUP, 1991), A Different Kind of Smoke (Redbeck, 2001) and The English Civil War Part 2 (Peterloo Poets, 2009). […]
Introducing the Maligned Species team: John Siddique
Poet, Writer, Authentic living leader, John Siddique. When John was a child, he immersed himself in books through his local library. Before becoming a writer he drifted through various jobs such as being a roadie, a pipe-welder, and landscape gardener. Four poetry collections later, John Siddique is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts […]
