Andrew Motion uses interviews with scientists and environmentalists to form the basis of a new series of poems that address the subject of climate change and which the BBC recently featured. Motion writes,
“What is happening to our planet and its creatures it a question that should keep us all awake at night. I’ve responded to it here by writing a series of collaborate poems by talking to people who deal with this question everyday.”
He spoke to scientists and environmentalists and wrote a series of collaborative poems based on these conversations. He says,
“What emerged in the end was a swirl of voices. A story that has no single clear narrative line, but offers instead a succession of utterances linked by similar preoccupations.”