Poetry review – WE HAVE TO LEAVE THE EARTH: Julie Hogg admires a powerful new collection by Carolyn Jess-Cooke
ecology
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, ecology, poetry reviews, year 2022 • Tags: books, ecology, poetry, Stephen Claughton • 0 Comments
Poetry Review – MOLLUSC: Stephen Claughton reviews Mark Totterdell’s new collection which is deeply concerned with the natural world
by Barbara Lewis • books, ecology, society, year 2021 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, books, ecology, society •
The Great Melt By Alister Doyle Published by Flint Books My only churlish quibble with Alister Doyle’s highly readable distillation of years of meticulous research into climate change and sea level rise is that it might make the reader desperate for the kind of far-flung adventures we can no longer undertake lightly.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, ecology, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, ecology, Edmund Prestwich, poetry • 1 Comment
Poetry review – OAK: Edmund Prestwich is captivated by an imaginative poem-biography of an oak tree by Katharine Towers
by Barbara Lewis • books, ecology, film, politics, society • Tags: Barbara Lewis, books, ecology, film, politics, society •
Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial. By Peter Stott. Review by Barbara Lewis.
A year before the Kyoto Protocol committed the developed world to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, Britain’s Education Act of 1996 incorporated the Thatcher government’s 1986 Education Act that was designed to deal with a perceived issue of left-wing teachers indoctrinating school pupils. Two decades on, mathematician Peter Stott found himself defending climate science against its deniers, who used Thatcher’s legal legacy to take to the High Court their objections to Al Gore’s climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth being streamed in schools.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, ecology, economics, poetry reviews, politics, year 2021 • Tags: Bill Jenkinson, books, ecology, economics, poetry, politics • 0 Comments
REBEL TALK – Bill Jenkinson surveys a collection of poems on the climate emergency compiled and edited by Rip Bulkeley
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, ecology, poetry reviews, politics, year 2021 • Tags: Alwyn Marriage, books, ecology, poetry, politics • 0 Comments
Poetry review – 100 POEMS TO SAVE THE EARTH: Alwyn Marriage reviews a new anthology edited by ZoĂ« Brigley & Kristian Evans
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, ecology, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, ecology, Neil Leadbeater, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – THE GOD OF LOST WAYS: Neil Leadbeater admires Jane Lovell’s eye for detail as revealed in her latest collection
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, ecology, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, ecology, Eret Talviste, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry Review – VIVARIUM: the hidden violence of passing time, climate-change, history and the sense of self – Eret Talviste finds all this in Maarja Pärtna’s poetry
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, ecology, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: Adele Ward, books, ecology, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry Review – This Tilting Earth: Adele Ward reviews Jane Lovell’s new pamphlet which is full of concern for our planet
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, ecology, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, ecology, Maria McCarthy, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – Poems for the Planet: Maria McCarthy looks at a powerful multi-author pamphlet designed to raise awareness of ecological issues
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, ecology, poetry reviews, science, year 2022 • Tags: Alwyn Marriage, books, ecology, poetry, science • 0 Comments
Poetry review – PHOTOVOLTAIC: Alwyn Marriage welcomes the mix of poetry and science in Sarah Watkinson’s new collection