Earth Day 2023
To celebrate Earth Day on 22 April 2023, staff from across the University have shared their own poems on the theme of ‘re-imagining our world’ and climate research.
Selva Dhandapani celebrates the beauty of the Thames in ‘To walk by your side’.
Pen Cabot rallies against ‘the futility of despair’ surrounding climate action.
Peter Robinson draws connections between the natural world and the manmade world.
Hydrologist Hannah Cloke feels like a broken record when it comes to warning people about the climate emergency.
Karín Lesnik-Oberstein urges the world to stop hoping and start taking action for the climate in her poem ‘Not’.
Alison Arkell hopes that her children will never need to ask why they need to wear suncream in December.
Mona Ashok urges readers to turn the clock back on climate change.