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Jack Wolf

@aurochsunderground.bsky.social
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Writer, Creative Writing Tutor, founder editor at Aurochs Underground Press. Animist permaculturist and sometime dog trainer.

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Jack Wolf @aurochsunderground.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Still getting a sense of how this place works - not used to the short form. But here's a link to the AUP website and the most recent call for submissions - and some thoughts about the value of Story in Animist thought. aurochspress.co.uk/the-journal
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The Journal: Calls for Submissions – Aurochs Press
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Jack Wolf @aurochsunderground.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Happy New Year world from everyone at Aurochs Underground. To join in the conversation and find out more about New Animist Writing visit aurochspress.co.uk
Picture is of a book on a pile of envelopes: the book title reads Homecoming, a Journal of New Animist Writing and has a picture of a white owl in front od some round barrows.
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Jack Wolf @aurochsunderground.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Happy New Year to everyone who has been part of Homecoming this year - and all those who might want to join the conversation next year. Blessings of the winter Sun to you!
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Jack Wolf @aurochsunderground.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Copies of Homecoming 4: Nature are now available at aurochspress.co.uk/store.
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Jack Wolf @aurochsunderground.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
If you want to find out what the excitement is about and join in the Homecoming conversation visit the website and order your copy today. Orders placed today will arrive mid-January (we only print small amounts at a time to avoid wastage and don't keep large amounts in stock).
Image shows a book on a pile of white envelopes. Book title is Homecoming, a Journal of New Animist Writing.
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Jack Wolf @aurochsunderground.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Homecoming 4: Nature is now available from aurochspress.co.uk/store. It's absolutely beautiful and we are in love with it!
Image shows a pile of white envelopes with a book on top. Book has a white owl on it and the title Homecoming, A Journal of New Animist Writing.
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Jack Wolf @aurochsunderground.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Exciting! Just in time for the Solstice, early copies of Homecoming 4: Nature have arrived - and all are going straght back out again to pre-orders. If you have already ordered your copy, it will be with you after the Xmas holiday delay. Midwinter Blessings, everyone!
Image shows a book on a pile of envelopes. The book cover has a white owl on it perching on a stone in front of a series of circular mounds. The book is titled : Homecoming 4 Nature, by Aurochs Underground Press. Edited by Jack Wolf.Image shows the contents page of a book. The book is Homecoming 4: Nature and the first article is the introduction by Jonathan Woolley on Animism and Nature.
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Jack Wolf @aurochsunderground.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
looks like we've made it through Storm Darragh, at least so far. Dogs decidedly unimpressed by all the scary wind noises, but firework night - I mean fortnight - was worse. Power went off at some point last night, but not enough to cause any serious trouble.
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Fascinating, hopeful case: legally enforceable rights just granted to the Snohomish River watershed in Everett City, Washington State. “Voters in Everett…enshrined the watershed’s rights to exist, regenerate and flourish.” insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...
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A River in Washington State Now Has Enforceable Legal Rights - Inside Climate News
Voters in the city of Everett chose to grant the Snohomish River watershed rights to exist, regenerate and flourish as part of a November ballot initiative.
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages... 8. Little walnut (Bulgarian) 7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese) 6. Thumbling (Finnish) 5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish) 4. Fence-master (Hebrew) 3. Druid bird (Irish) 2. Mouse-brother (Faroese) 1. Little king of winter (Dutch)
Photo of a tubby little wren (what I like to call a "little dumpling birb") perched on an icy branch, taken by Jeff Cohen
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I agree with this. I would also say: if you don’t have at least one friend who comes from that culture… why the hell are you trying to write about it? The fewer people you actually know from that culture, the more likely it is you’re writing about a stereotype in your head not about real people.
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Jack Wolf @aurochsunderground.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I am so excited about this Winter's issue of Homecoming, which will be out on the 21st and is freaking awesome! Only available from Aurochs Underground Press for the time being, so if you want it, get your orders in to aurochspress.co.uk/store Cover image: Owl by Hannah Willow
Image of book cover, showing 'Owl'  by Hannah Willow and text reading: This issue of this groundbreaking new journal gathers works from new and established writers in the emerging field of New Animist Writing.
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
“There’s more water carried along the roads in lorries than runs in our streams.” How has it come to this: that private companies are licensed to abstract water from aquifers below parched regions, then sell it back in bottles to those who live & struggle there? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water
Spain is increasingly either parched or flooded – and one group is profiting from these extremes: the water-grabbing multinational companies forcing angry citizens to pay for it in bottles
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
“Whatever case you could make for Britain being out of the EU in the Obama era of 2016 makes no sense now…. it’s time for outriders to start riding out” - brilliant as ever from ⁦‪@Freedland‬⁩. And @europeanmovement.co.uk is definitely riding out. Join us … www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Brexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU | Jonathan Freedland
From defence to trade, the incoming US president is upending the old order – and standing apart from our neighbours leaves us dangerously exposed, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The 🚫 Anti-Prime 🚫 sale starts now. Free delivery is Go! Buy books and support independent bookshops with us at Bookshop.org
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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
There's free delivery at Bookshop.org all weekend. Please help support local bookstores. uk.bookshop.org/
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
COP continues to fail us– and our planet . There were 1,700 fossil fuel execs present at #COP29 – larger than any other delegation at the conference . That’s why we’re angry– and it’s why I’m petitioning the Government to ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorships . Sign at lovera.ge/ban-ffa
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
You know what would **really** disrupt the publishing industry? Fair contracts and decent pay for authors. No AI training without the creator’s consent. Artists and translators on the cover. No NDAs for ghostwriters.
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Jack Wolf @aurochsunderground.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year
The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
#COP29 has failed to deliver.❌ Trust is broken as leaders leave glaring gaps in finance and ambition—putting people, planet, and the world’s poorest at risk. We’ll keep fighting. The climate and nature crisis can’t wait another year.
An Avocet stands poised in shallow water, its black-and-white plumage stark against the fragile stillness. Wings raised in a protective threat posture, it embodies a planet fighting for survival—a reminder of what’s at risk and why the fight for people and planet must go on.
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Jack Wolf @aurochsunderground.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Cop29 live: rich nations to raise climate finance offer to $300bn as Thunberg warns summit ‘about to agree to death sentence’
The talks in Azerbaijan have seen nations at odds over how much money developed countries should provide to poorer ones
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Jack Wolf @aurochsunderground.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
"The COP processes aren’t just failing us, they are part of a larger system built on injustice and designed to sacrifice current and future generations for the opportunity of a few to keep making unimaginable profits and continue to exploit planet and people." Greta Thunberg. My thoughts exactly.
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Archaeotherapy-Hari Sams @archaeotherapy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The UK is notoriously depleted in wildlife flora and fauna. Vast swathes of upland landscapes are entirely managed for grouse, suppressing many other beings that should belong there. Please sign, and perhaps we will begin to see upland restoration for biodiversity, not just one species to shoot.
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Archaeotherapy-Hari Sams @archaeotherapy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Can #archaeotherapy happen unplanned? Here I write about someone who found and explored the human-dug river cut in the backwaters of Bristol, helping to heal the ‘orphaned Irish parts’ of her. www.aup-online.com/content/pape...
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“Finding the Orphaned Irish Parts of Me” at the New Cut: Defining Self-Identity Through Encountering an Archaeological Site | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
This paper presents a case study of a participant’s experience of exploring and connecting to the New Cut docks, in Bristol, UK, which had been excavated by Irish immigrant labourers between 1804 to 1...
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"Water firms stopped from using customer money for bonuses" About bloomin time too 👍🏼💙 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Ofwat rules out customers paying £195,000 Thames Water boss bonus
The regulator uses new powers to prevent bonuses being funded from customer bills.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
700+ journalists at Britain’s only liberal newspaper(s) believe that something has gone so profoundly wrong in their own organisation that 93% of them have voted to go on strike 1/ pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...
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Guardian strike: Staff agree 48-hour walkout over Observer sale to Tortoise
Guardian strike vote: Staff agree 48-hour walkout in protest at proposed sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media
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Jack Wolf @aurochsunderground.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hello, I'm now here!
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