Ralph Steadman, Ceri Levy and poems about climate change – books podcast
We join Ralph Steadman in his studio as he teams up with Ceri Levy to put birds threatened with extinction in the frame, and hear how poets are responding to climate chaos
This week's books podcast heads to rural Kent on the trail of the artist Ralph Steadman and the film-maker Ceri Levy, who are putting endangered birds under the lens with a collection of explosive portraits, Nextinction.
We hear what happened when Levy teamed up with Steadman to chart the forces pushing birds to the brink of extinction all over the world, how the artist finds birds both real and imaginary in splats of ink, and why doom is not enough.
When the Guardian launched its Keep it in the ground campaign, we teamed up with the poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, to put together a collection of poems inspired by climate change. We listen to a selection from the series, with Iwan Rheon reading Gillian Clarke's Cantre'r Gwaelod, Michael Sheen reading Robert Minhinnick's The Rhinoceros and Kelly Macdonald reading Jackie Kay's Extinction.
Reading list
Nextinction by Ralph Steadman and Ceri Levy (Bloomsbury)
Gallery: Ralph Steadman's birds on the edge of extinction
Keep it in the ground: a poem a day
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