Karen McCarthy Woolf

So excited! Too Doll is one of @rishidastidar’s Books of the Year 🙏🏾🩵🔥💎

Cholmondeley Awards - The Society of Authors Recognising the achievement and distinction of individual poets

Huge congratulations to Dr Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social, Associate Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, who has been awarded a Cholmondeley Award for her contribution to poetry.
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page of book, black print on white paper - RAPIER - Salena Godden

Salena Godden in yellow holding a copy of CALLALOO with yellow artwork on cover

Today the latest 'Callaloo' landed ‘New Dimensions: Black British Literatures and Creative Communities’ A special Issue edited and curated beautifully by @jallenpaisant.bsky.social & @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social - I have one of my grotesque horror short stories ‘Rapier’ included here! Thank you!

Earth Versed: 10 New Poetry Books About Our Relationship With Nature • The Revelator From a collection set in a landfill to an author’s cultural exploration of a critically endangered species, these books celebrate Earth and mourn its destruction.

Earth Versed: 10 New Poetry Books About Our Relationship With Nature -- by me @therevelator.org featuring @mahaila.bsky.social @maidervang.bsky.social @monaarshiwrites.bsky.social @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social @whitneyhanson.bsky.social @mariaschrater.bsky.social therevelator.org/environmenta...

Thrilled to have ‘Self-Portrait with Fire Ants’ in this special anthology Nature Matters edited by @monaarshiwrites.bsky.social & @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social a go-to text for teaching. Published by @faberbooks.bsky.social My poem is from my 2nd collection The Zoo Father @serenbooks.bsky.social

Two Inspiring Books for Late Summer — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe Nature Matters , edited by Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf, gathers African, Asian, and Caribbean diaspora voices to reimagine environmentalism and ecopoetics. Woolf, our 2020 Poet in Residence at...

Still some extra time to catch up on your reading before the semester starts? Here are two inspiring books for late summer!
www.promiseeurope.law.ucla.edu/news/two-inspiring-books-for-late-summer
@karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social @monaarshiwrites.bsky.social

My work has been pirated along w countless others— a @societyofauthors.bsky.social guide on what you can do…

This World Poetry Day, introducing Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority, a new gathering of African, Asian and Caribbean diaspora voices on nature.

Edited by Mona Arshi and @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social , Nature Matters is out in May 2025 and available to pre-order now.

I’m thrilled to have work in this new anthology edited Mona Arshi and @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social

Hungary bans Pride, mandates $540 fines for attendees. Will use facial recognition to ID people

Top Doll signing after my @poetrylondon.bsky.social reading at StAnza w @paulfarley.bsky.social & Janette Achariya 💗

Fascism is here.

The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich.

🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, Messiaen and the Birds Poet Michael Symmons Roberts explores composer Olivier Messiaen's obsession with birdsong.

Looking forward to this! Poet Michael Symmons Roberts explores composer Olivier #Messiaen's obsession with birdsong in this imaginative sonic trip 8pm Sun 23rd Feb @BBCRadio3 or catch up @BBCSounds Producer @nadiamolinari.bsky.social #classicalmusic #audiodrama
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I had moments of sadness this week. I spoke at a press freedom conference about the corporate capture of the Observer. This is one of my last pieces. I'll miss my brilliant colleagues. But I'm rebuilding from the ground up, truly independent media. Please join me 🙏

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Dates for Top Doll out & about this Spring 🌼

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Nature Matters! 🌿✨

Reading w @ellafrears.bsky.social & others at @sohopolypoetry on 7 March. Come thru!!! 🎶✨🎶

They tried to cancel John Crace from covering the right-wing jamboree at ExCel but no one can stop him filing copy this good

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

USS: *chef’s kiss*

Am interviewing poetic mythmaker @nickmakoha at the @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social Goldsmiths Writers Centre on 26 February — also big up @richardscott whose crystal poems glint in the light!

Saturn 🪐 returneth!

Uh oh. The word spoiler may be the spoiler lol 😂

Are Bloomsbury standing up to Amazon’s ridiculous demands??? Huge if so. Anyone know the inside gossip?

No more Bloomsbury books available on Amazon 👀👀

Michael Longley - Where Poems Come From A film profile of Belfast poet Michael Longley, offering insights into his work, friendships, working process, the places that have inspired him and his relationship with the natural world.

The great Michael Longely has died. We have lost a poet of immense stature. This recent BBC doc will give you a flavour of how he made made words sing: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

As best you can, ignore him.

I’m behind …