This poem was originally conceived as a locative app to make scientific understanding of saltmarsh dynamics more accessible for the communities of the Taf Estuary in Carmarthenshire and the Mawddach Estuary in Snowdonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Link to poem and video<\/a> with words spoken by\u00a0Philip Brett King<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The context for this was \u2018CoastWeb\u2019, an academic research project to explore community perceptions of saltmarsh that ran between 2017-2021. It now exists as a poem and an audio version spoken by Welsh voice actors and as a Welsh language translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is an edited version produced for the Environment Agency\u2019s \u2018ReMeMaRe\u2019 conference July 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Acknowledgements: CoastWeb research project, \u2018Valuing Nature Programme\u2019, UKRI<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This poem was originally conceived as a locative app to make scientific understanding of saltmarsh dynamics more accessible for the communities of the Taf Estuary in Carmarthenshire and the Mawddach Estuary in Snowdonia. Link to poem and video with words spoken by\u00a0Philip Brett King The context for this was \u2018CoastWeb\u2019, an academic research project to … Continue reading New Poem Out: A Saltmarsh Poem – 16th July 2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/debenestuarypartnership.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A-Saltmarsh-Poem.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debenestuarypartnership.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debenestuarypartnership.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debenestuarypartnership.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debenestuarypartnership.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debenestuarypartnership.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/debenestuarypartnership.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/debenestuarypartnership.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debenestuarypartnership.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debenestuarypartnership.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debenestuarypartnership.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debenestuarypartnership.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}