Red Room Poetry Podcast: Recent Episodes
Red Room Poetry
Australia’s leading organisation for the commissioning and creation of new poetry by established and emerging poets as well as students.
Our poetic projects and learning programs are created in collaboration with a spectrum of poets, communities, schools and partners for positive impact.
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 at: redroomcompany.org/projects/extinction-elegies/
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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.
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 Australia.
"World is a roost under dried fronds of Arenga palms, with your few-gram-body the soft-spot of reminisce and distress."
~ from 'Not the Postage Stamp of the Christmas Island Pipistrelle!' by John Kinsella
Learn more at: redroomcompany.org/projects/extinction-elegies/
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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.
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.
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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/
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/
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/
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/
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/