Jasmine Donahaye Interviewed by Jem Poster

Writer and poet Professor Jasmine Donahaye explores birds, the aftermath of violence, and women’s particular experience of the natural world.

Donahaye’s new collection of interlinked essays, Birdsplaining: A Natural History, asks provocative questions about our relationship to the natural world and to one another.

Donahaye is a professor of creative writing at Swansea University and author of the memoir, Losing Israel, a biography of Lily Tobias, and two collections of poetry. Here she talks to Professor Jem Poster, emeritus professor of creative writing, Aberystwyth University, author of a collection of poetry, Brought to Light, and of two novels, Courting Shadows and Rifling Paradise.