Episode 3: ‘Loss of Aus Biodiversity’ Ali Cobby Eckermann, Stuart Cooke & Professor Sarah Bekessy

Red Room Poetry Podcast

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/ -- 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.