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Karen McCarthy Woolf
@KMcCarthyWoolf
FRSL. Postdoctoral Fulbright scholar, UCLA/Promise Institute for Human Rights. Poet. Novelist. Associate Lecturer, Goldsmiths.
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The Top Ten independent farmers are all landed gentry. This protest seems so near yet so far from the real issue ie— predatory agribusiness destroying biodiversity & enforcing impossible market-led margins that create hideous conditions for animals & humans alike.
Unimpressed by the ‘Wellies for Wealth’ rally.
These aren’t the people who’ve worked the land for centuries.
They’re the ones who stole it, enclosed it, & imposed serfdom.
The continuation of that is rich racists Farage and Clarkson (who bragged about buying a farm as a tax
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Are there any poems from Top Doll people wanna hear?
We want your requests! What would you like to hear in the next series of Poetry Please? Reply below...View quoted post on X
Join the San people's push to protect their homeland and the habitat of 1 in 3 surviving African elephants. Here's how: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/ok…
secure.avaaz.org Africa’s Eden is under assault Our future's at stake. Help save our land, home to 1 in 3 surviving African elephants. Wow. As an editor of anthologies, poet and occasional critic this really resonated. I remember the general grief Rita Dove received for giving more than a token nod to eminent writers of colour — so touching to see this exchange 🕊️
What an extraordinary, touching and generous exchange between Rita Dove and the dying Helen Vendler, a great critic whose loss we mourn.View quoted post on X
