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Rewilding: Brodgar Poetry/Sound WalkStephanie Green and Sonja Heyer

Stephanie Green and Sonja Heyer — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 08:39:42 +0000

Why not go on a short walk? Only fifteen minutes or so. It could take you anywhere, through a green space, or down city streets. Go on a walk and listen to recordings of poetry melded with sound. These natural sounds were recorded on site at the Ring of Brodgar, Orkney, Scotland. They comprise wind, [...]

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Listen: Parables of Nutmegs and GenocideAmitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 08:00:05 +0000

Amitav Ghosh is an influential Indian writer and environmental thinker who has won many honours for his fiction. A former academic, he’s the author of several substantial works of non-fiction, including The Great Derangement, an exploration of literature’s failure to address the climate and ecological emergency. His new work, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in [...]

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Listen: Where is the heart of climate denial in the UK?

toby — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 09:08:04 +0000

Who are the main people and organisations coming between the UK people and policy progress to address the climate and ecological emergency? Questions like this led Writers Rebel to organize an action in a quiet privileged street in the heart of the parliamentary district in London. The Writers Rebel action in Tufton Street: No More [...]

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Listen: Nina Lahkani asks ‘Who Killed Berta Cáceres?’

toby — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 07:33:18 +0000

Ever wonder who the pink boat in Oxford Circus was named after? Berta Cáceres was a Lenca from Honduras who won the prestigious Goldman Prize. She was subsequently murdered in her own home for resisting work on the Agua Zarca dam. The Writers Rebel podcast focuses on indigenous environmental defenders this episode, and [...]

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Listen: Twenty Four Splashes of DenialRuth Padel

toby — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 07:59:41 +0000

XRWRITERSREBEL · Twenty Four Splashes Of Denial by Ruth Padel Ruth Padel is a poet, novelist and non-fiction author, Professor of Poetry at King’s College London, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Society of London. She has published a novel focusing on wildlife in India, and a range of non-fiction [...]

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Listen: Writers Rebel Bookclub with Amitav Ghosh

Rebel Writers Podcast — Fri, 22 May 2020 14:48:30 +0000

We were thrilled to get together with Amitav Ghosh to talk about his book The Great Derangement, a seminal work about colonialism, Climate Crisis and much more. It was published in 2015, pre-dating Extinction Rebellion and the Youth Strikes. There follows a discussion with Mothiur Rahman (XR Muslims, Guardianship and Visioning Circles), Ami Amlani (XR [...]

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Listen: The Birth of Writers Rebel with Margaret Atwood

Rebel Writers Podcast — Thu, 21 May 2020 12:32:40 +0000

The second Writers Rebel podcast made in conjunction with Extinction Rebellion contains a feast of stories and poems from the Writers’ Marathon in Trafalgar Square, London (on the 11th of October, 2019). Oh, and we also have an interview with Booker Prize co-winner, and author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, Margaret Atwood. We [...]

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Listen: Planning A Literary Rebellion with Jonathan Franzen

Rebel Writers Podcast — Wed, 20 May 2020 12:32:25 +0000

For our first Writers Rebel Podcast, we talked to the team behind the October Rebellion reading marathon shortly the event – James Miller (Lost Boys and Sunshine State), Monique Roffey (whose novel Archipelago won the OCM Bocas Award for Caribbean Literature), and Chloe Aridjis, (who wrote Book of Clouds, and has been awarded a Guggenheim [...]

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