This week, Sedge presents the first of a series of show about nature as seen through the eyes of artists: today, two writers whose affinity for nature and myth has led to the creation of art expressing the complications of humanity. Their humor, self-deprecation and insight give us hope.
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Icelandic poet, novelist and lyricist published in 25 languages. He collaborates with Bjork and performed with The Sugarcubes as Johnny Triumph. His three books in English, The Whispering Muse, From the Mouth of the Whale, and The Blue Fox link Icelandic myth, Thor and Loki, to current politics and the history of punk music.
JOHN FOWLES - a rare visit from 1996 when the reclusive author left Lyme Regis and came to talk on West Coast Live. The author of The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus, The Collector, Nature on Nature, and many other books talks of his love of nature, detestation of cities, the necessity of learning to hunt yet his revulsion of it, of the fossisls he found and of the love he enjoyed..