Episode 2: ‘Art and Science’ with Bruce Pascoe, Mark Tredinnick and Dr Thomas Bristow

Red Room Poetry Podcast

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 extinction of species to deepen empathy with threatened animals and habitats. In this three-part radio series, six eminent Australian poets and three extinction experts share their poems and reflect on losses of animals significant to them. Produced by Prithvi Varatharajan with the assistance of the Community Radio Network. Music by Guillermo Batiz. Learn more at: https://redroomcompany.org/projects/extinction-elegies/