by pennyurquhart | Apr 29, 2016 | Africa, environment, Uncategorized
Imagine a world without birdsong. It’s unthinkable, isn’t it? But song birds all over the world are in trouble – this is the motivation behind The Messenger, Su Rynard’s 2015 documentary that aims to raise awareness and, hopefully, galvanise...
by pennyurquhart | Apr 6, 2016 | climate change and health, climate justice, Uncategorized
Image: Earth Hour 2016 Was it any coincidence that Human Rights Day in South Africa fell on the same day as World Poetry Day – 21st March? Not if you consider how a number of South African poets shone a light on the injustices of the apartheid era – think of Ingrid...
by pennyurquhart | Oct 14, 2014 | personal
Ill at home, I am reminded of the Robert Louis Stevenson poem, The Land of Counterpane, with it’s lovely sense of content self-sufficiency. The poem is ripe with the imaginative possibilities delivered by the altered state of being sick. Stevenson sends his...
