Language Archives - The Skylark

Theresa Lola: Poetry can transport you to places you’ve never been in ten lines. It’s emotion compressed

The poet on anglicising her name as a teenager, rediscovering her oríkì, and writing a collection about what names reveal and erase.

May 31, 2025

The British artist on conflict, control, the false clarity of the picturesque – and why all art is a form of activism.

April 24, 2025

The writer and lifelong birder on fifty years of change written into our birdlife, the discipline of really looking, and the moment of silence

February 5, 2025

PLANET

The biologist, television presenter and filmmaker on why 25 years of nature TV failed to save the planet — and what we need to

March 20, 2024