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POETRY AND is a King’s College London series curated and chaired by Professor of Poetry Ruth Padel to highlight poetry’s connectivity to all areas of life and learning. We pair leading experts in anything from human rights to genetics with poets who write superbly on those areas of expertise.
Coronavirus came from human intrusion into the wild. We are destroying nature, wildlife is facing imminent extinction, but lockdown showed it is still there. When humans withdraw from public space, wild nature still re-appears, How do we articulate all that to ourselves and what can we do about it?
Shekar Dattatri is an award-winning pioneer of Indian wildlife and conservation filmmaking, and co-founder of Conservation India.
Pascale Petit is a prize-winning British poet of French, Welsh and Indian heritage, Her new collection Tiger Girl, memorializing her Indian grandmother, is set in Indian forests.
Ruth Padel's books include Tigers in Red Weather on tiger conservation, a novel on wildlife conservation and wildlife crime, Where the Serpent Lives.
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