Opening image, A Malayan Sun Bear in a zoo at the Pata mall in Thailand, 2008, by Jo-Anne McArthur/We Animals Media: https://stock.weanimalsmedia.org/asset/13888/
For this episode we were honoured to welcome Scottish poet Gordon Meade to talk about his collection of poems in Zoospeak, inspired by the photography of Jo-Anne McArthur. In this episode of the Anthrozoology Podcast we are honoured to welcome Scottish poet Gordon Meade. Gordon’s tenth collection of poems, inspired by photographs taken by Jo-Anne McArthur, is entitled Zoospeak. We often write and speak about the human tendency to use language as a tool of separation; to control the narrative of otherthanhuman lives. Gordon’s work instead uses language as a tool to highlight the many species with whom we life-share. In fact, otherthanhuman species have featured his life and work for decades.
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Kris Hill PhD Student, University of Exeter kh458@exeter.ac.uk https://katzenlife.wordpress.com/
Dr. Michelle Szydlowski Assistant Professor at Beacon College, US ms835@exeter.ac.uk www.internationalelephants.org
Sarah Oxley Heaney PhD Student, University of Exeter sh750@exeter.ac.uk www.kissingsharks.com
Podlet Guest: Gordon Meade Scottish Poet egordonmeade1@btinternet.com https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/gordon-meade/
References
A general reference on stereotypy and zoo animals: Manteca, X., and Salas, M. (2015). Stereotypies as animal welfare indicators. The Zoo Animal Welfare Education Centre (ZAWEC). https://www.zawec.org/en/fact-sheets/44-stereotypies-as-animal-welfare-indicators Reference on species-specific zoo animal welfare: Sherwen, Sally L., and Paul H. Hemsworth. 2019.
The Visitor Effect on Zoo Animals: Implications and Opportunities for Zoo Animal Welfare. Animals 9 (6): 1–27.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9060366. Tidière, Morgane, Jean Michel Gaillard, Vérane Berger, Dennis W.H. Müller, Laurie
Bingaman Lackey, Olivier Gimenez, Marcus Clauss, and Jean François Lemaître. 2016. Comparative Analyses of Longevity and Senescence Reveal Variable Survival Benefits of Living in Zoos across Mammals. Scientific Reports 6 (November): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep36361 Works cited: Blackfish. 2013. Documentary: https://www.blackfishmovie.com/about Jo-
Anne McArthur Photography: https://joannemcarthur.com/ McArthur, Jo-Anne. 2013. We Animals. Lantern Books. https://weanimalsmedia.org/our-work/purchase-our-books/ McArthur, Jo-Anne. 2017. Captive. Lantern Books. https://weanimalsmedia.org/our-work/purchase-our-books/ McArthur, Jo-Anne, and Keith Wilson. 2020. HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene. Lantern Publishing and Media. https://weanimalsmedia.org/our-work/hidden/ Meade, Gordon and
McArthur, Jo-Anne. 2020. Zoospeak. London: Enthusiastic Press. Meade, Gordon (in press) Animal Elegies. Due out in October 2022 with Lantern Publishing. Ted Hughes (Edward J. Hughes) 1930-1998. British Poet. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ted-Hughes We Animals Media | Animal Photojournalism: https://weanimalsmedia.org/ Woodward, Wendy, [Review] Gordon Meade with Jo-Anne McArthur. Zoospeak. London:
Enthusiastic Press, 2020. 126 pp., Animal Studies Journal, 10(2), 2021, 224-227. Available at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol10/iss2/13 Zoospeak: An interview with Gordon Mead (sic). 2020. Politics and Animals. 7. https://journals.lub.lu.se/pa/issue/view/3256