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 […]
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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 [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229563662″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] and click here to […]
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 […]
Introducing the Maligned Species team: Emma Purshouse
Poet, Writer, Performer, Emma Purshouse. Emma Purshouse says: Maligned Species: Poetry. Science. And you.
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 […]
