Breeding and nesting razor bills, guillemots, gannets, and puffins -- recorded at the RSPB Nature Preserve at Bempton Cliffs.

Bempton Cliffs (East Riding of Yorkshire, England) 20 April 2021

A walk counterclockwise along Canley Brook, in Coventry, from Tocil Woods to Prior Deram Walk.

Canley Brook Walk

recorded on the 6th of April 2014 at La Prée, on the banks of the Arnon, near Segry, France 

Blackcap Warbler at La Prée

Recording of Jonathan Skinner reading his adaptation of a 1270 Old Occitan complaint (planh), “Quar nueg e jorn trist soi et esbahit." Adapted as part of Delisted -- holding space with species declared extinct by US Fish & Wildlife: https://www.delisted2023.com Published in Chant de la Sirene Climate & Poetics issue: https://www.chantdelasirenejournal.com/jonathan-skinner

Planh

Recording of Jonathan Skinner reading his homophonic translation of Michael Vereno’s performance of Gaucelm Faidit’s planh for Richard the Lionheart (ca 1199), “Fortz chausa es que tot lo major dan,” transposed with diction drawn from correspondence and publications about the extinct Bachman’s Warbler. Translated as part of Delisted -- holding space with species declared extinct by US Fish & Wildlife: www.delisted2023.com Published in Chant de la Sirene Climate & Poetics issue: www.chantdelasirenejournal.com/jonathan-skinner

Fortz Chausa Es

Recording of Jonathan Skinner reading his ‘Contrafactum’ of Count of Poitiers Guillaume IX’s vers “Pos de chantar m'es pres talenz” (ca 1111), drawing its end words from a ‘word cloud’ of correspondence and publications about the extinct Bachman’s Warbler. Composed as part of Delisted -- holding space with species declared extinct by US Fish & Wildlife: https://www.delisted2023.com Published in Chant de la Sirene Climate & Poetics issue: https://www.chantdelasirenejournal.com/jonathan-skinner

Song of Extinction

Equinoctial amphibians (France, near Brantes)

Sean Bonney and Joshua Clover Poetry Reading: University of Warwick, 11 June 2015

A reading of the poem "The Bad Thing" at Geronimo's Books, Santa Fe, NM (Easter Sunday 2025)

SkinnerTheBadThing

"the sound of the sea bell's
Perpetual angelus" (T.S. Eliot, The Dry Salvages) 

Owls Head Light (ME), near midnight, harvest moon, Sept. 2016

Owls Head Light

Pauline Oliveros, 15 March 2012, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

Deep Listening

A sonnet, with playful elements. Recorded at Jack's and Jennifer's place, 10 Sept. 2016.

Jack Collom, 10 Sept. 2016

CA Conrad, apartment reading, 45 Russell Terrace, Leamington Spa, 
7 October 2016

CAConrad7Oct2016

Spring Peepers and American Toads (South Hill, Ithaca, NY, 16 April 2012)

Peter Manson reads an excerpt from his "exploded translation" of Mallarmé's Les Noces d'Hérodiade, at the Expanded Translation symposium in London, England (Iklectik, 25 June 2018).

Les Noces d'Hérodiade (Mallarmé/Manson)

Remembering the acoustic spaces of Notre-Dame de Paris. Gregorian chant concert, 30 December 2008.

EcoleNotreDameDeParis

from "Little Dictionary of Sounds"(Political Cactus Poems, Palm Press, 2005) 

hiccup then what
a side of something or peas
clattering down the way
elevator siding Tifft’s fence
Santa Fe Rail’s last ride
smashed down
in the brake with a muskrat
a friendly wave from the engineer
rattles the loose change

Freight

from "Little Dictionary of Sounds" (Political Cactus Poems, Palm Press, 2005)

on the Tifft tarmac
a boisterous crowd of three
wearing rack and pinion
Canadensis is a fever
crowned with geese in the fall
does it come in grids
there and now, north south
breakfast on the wing heels
skidding to a marsh

ecopoetics

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