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Episode 3: ‘Loss of Aus Biodiversity’ Ali Cobby Eckermann, Stuart Cooke & Professor Sarah Bekessy
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Episode Three of our Extinction Elegies radio series explores cultural connections to Country and wedge-tailed eagles with Ali Cobby Eckerman. Meanwhile, poet Stuart Cooke examines the entanglement of human life with the northern long-nosed potoroo and Professor Sarah Bekessy speaks to ways we might increase sustainability in urban areas.Learn more…
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Episode 1: ‘Island Ecologies’ with Michelle Cahill, John Kinsella and Professor John Woinarski
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In Episode One of our Extinction Elegies radio series, poet Michelle Cahill reflects on the eradication of the King Island Emu, while John Kinsella discusses the demise the Christmas Island Pipistrelle. Island and extinction specialist Professor John Woinarski contextualises these losses and what they mean in the bigger picture of extinctions in Au…
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Poet Bruce Pascoe honours the azure kingfisher and Mark Tredinnick laments the plastic seas that swallow species and language, while Dr Thomas Bristow explores the history of the elegy and its role in eco-criticism. --Created by Red Room Poetry with Durham University, Extinction Elegies, invites poets to reflect on losses, endangerment and extincti…
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The Red Room Company has commissioned 10 Australian poets to create and perform new work inspired by a dead poet of their choosing. Rhyming the Dead poems and interviews with the past and present poets explore ways death permeates life. Interviewed and produced by Maisie Cohen.http://redroomcompany.org/rhyming-dead/radioshow/…
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The Red Room Company has commissioned 10 Australian poets to create and perform new work inspired by a dead poet of their choosing. Rhyming the Dead poems and interviews with the past and present poets explore ways death permeates life. Interviewed and produced by Maisie Cohen.http://redroomcompany.org/rhyming-dead/radioshow/…
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