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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 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/ -- 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.
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