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Turtle Dove ~'love and constancy is dead' - The Phoenix and the Turtle

Mar 18, 20202 min read

Turtle Dove ~'love and constancy is dead' - The Phoenix and the Turtle

A once familiar sight and a sound often associated with love and the British summer, the turtle dove has declined by 97% since 1970.

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Mar 17, 20202 min read

Skylark Dissolving

This is the contemporary song of the skylark threatened with extinction by climate change and habitat loss.

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Mar 17, 20201 min read

Tessa Nilo (extinction stinks)

This is the song of a Sumatran elephant mother mourning the loss of her child to a poacher's bullet.

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Mar 16, 20202 min read

萌萌哒 - Meng meng da

This poem connects you through the doors of perception to the voice of the Yangtze River Porpoise, which is Critically Endangered

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Mar 16, 20201 min read

Is this Goodbye ~ Indo~China Tiger

A poem that takes you through the doors of perception into the consciousness of the Endangered Indo-China tiger species.

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Mar 15, 20201 min read

The horror! The horror!

This is the song of the Critically Endangered Western Lowland Gorilla and its struggle to survive.

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"Build that Wall" ~ the Monarch butterfly

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Mar 15, 20202 min read

"Build that Wall" ~ the Monarch butterfly

This is the song of the Monarch butterfly, taking you through the doors of perception to share its struggle to survive.

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Mar 15, 20201 min read

Is this Goodbye ~ Soala

This is the song of the Soala, opening the doors of perception to the struggle of this Critically Endangered species.

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Mar 12, 20201 min read

Is this Goodbye ~ Black Rhino

This is the song of the Black Rhino opening the doors of perception to the struggle of this Critically Endangered species to survive.

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Mar 12, 20201 min read

Is this Goodbye ~ Blue Wail

This is the song of the Blue Whale, opening the doors of perception to the struggle of this Critically Endangered species to survive.

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Mar 12, 20201 min read

Sturgeon Ghost~Dance

This is the song of the Sturgeon, opening the doors of perception to the struggle of this Endangered Species to survive.

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Mar 12, 20201 min read

Is this Goodbye ~ Borneo Orangutan

This is the song of the Borneo Orangutan, opening the doors of perception to the struggle of this species to survive.

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Mar 12, 20201 min read

Is this Goodbye ~ Amur Leopard

This is the song of the Amur Leopard, opening the doors of perception to the struggles of this Critically Endangered species to survive.

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Mar 11, 20201 min read

Kurofune 黒船 (The Dark Ships)

Kurofune 黒船 meditates on colonialism exploring ocean current connections between West and East.

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Mar 11, 20201 min read

Beached

'Beached' is a song of resistance to Brexit by re-connecting the Western Isles (Britain) to deeper world-wide currents.

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Mar 11, 20201 min read

Pig Preserved

This song is a meditation on a first encounter with Death.

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Mar 11, 20201 min read

剪纸 ~ Paper Cut

This song meditates on the Chinese tradition of paper-cut and its place in a changing, technology-driven society.

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Mar 11, 20202 min read

The Cricket Trainer

You are invited to visit the Beijing hutong home of Liu Yun Jiang - a trainer of crickets!

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Mar 11, 20201 min read

Le Dormeur des Rues

This poem meditates on a young nomad caught up in the urbanisation of a changing China.

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Mar 11, 20201 min read

Butterfly Mothers

This poem was inspired by a Miaozu festival in rural Guizhou Province in China. It explores connections between past and present experience

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