'Bog Talk' earths us in the sphagnum squidge of bogs to draw out the magic of peatlands in Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor in south west England. We’ll be chatting about poetry, place, peatland restoration, tracing conversations and creations made over a year, from spring to spring. This episode features readings by Fiona Benson and Richard Scott of their commissioned poetry for the Bog Talk project. The poets each followed their own threads of interest. Their poems furtle and surge around and into the soggy worlds of bogs. 

Bog Talk is produced and presented by Rose Ferraby, and this episode features poets Fiona Benson and Richard Scott. The poems heard here are the copyright of the poets, and must not be reused or reproduced.  Bog Talk is a project for RENEW at the University of Exeter, in collaboration with Natural England, the Poetry Society and the South West Peatland Partnership. And is funded by Natural England through the Protected Sites Strategy.

Bog Talk Episode 2 A Shaking Surface

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