CLIMATE POETRY: Blaise Sales and Jasper Rees, ‘Heat Stressed Moth’

Poets have long used their craft to reframe issues, convey emotion and share ideas, and climate change is an increasing feature of poetry shared across the world. To mark the launch of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures last year, our partners, the University of Leeds Poetry Centre, paired University of Leeds poets with Priestley Centre climate researchers to have a conversation that inspires a new poem.

Blaise Sales and Jasper Rees are previous Priestley Climate Scholars. Blaise is a poet and literature student in the School of English and Jasper is a scientist in the School of Biology.

Following their conversation, Blaise wrote the poem Heat Stressed Moth: