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we haven’t had rain, we’ve had too much rain
As Benjamin Zephaniah wrote: ‘A few years ago if u said yu were Green / Yu were really seen as Red’ [Me green poem, in City Psalms, Bloodaxe Books, 1992]. Now the British Council has published “Feeling the Pressure. Poetry … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, forest fiction
Tagged British Council, climate change poetry, poetry and science
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Cigarettes, coffee and strong drink
The market for the printed book is now global; the opportunities for the digital book are almost unimaginable. To be a writer in the English language today is to be one of the luckiest people alive. …it remains the paradox … Continue reading
Posted in forest fiction
Tagged African writers, book globalisation, British Council, ebooks
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