As part of an innovative project at the interface between science and the arts for COP26, performance poet Joelle Taylor has written and performed a poem around wildfires now available on the Hot Poets project website for Day 4 of COP26. The poem was inspired by Joelle’s recent visit to Thursley Common long-term experiment and the wider National Nature Reserve, hosted by ECT, Natural England and wildfire researcher Gareth Clay (University of Manchester). Thursley has suffered several wildfires since 2000.