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Karen McCarthy Woolf

@karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social
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Poet. Novelist. Essays. Nature geek & speaker addict. Author Top Doll 2024. TS Eliot Prize Shortlist. Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar UCLA. FRSL. Teaches at Goldsmiths. Faber Academy. 🎶🐿️ 🪐

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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
So excited! Too Doll is one of @rishidastidar’s Books of the Year 🙏🏾🩵🔥💎
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English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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. societyofauthors.org/prizes/the-s...
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Cholmondeley Awards - The Society of Authors
Recognising the achievement and distinction of individual poets
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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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!
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
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John R. Platt @johnrplatt.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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...
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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.
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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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
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UCLA Law The Promise Institute for Human Rights (Europe) @uclapromiseeurope.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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
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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...
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
My work has been pirated along w countless others— a @societyofauthors.bsky.social guide on what you can do…
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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.
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Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I’m thrilled to have work in this new anthology edited Mona Arshi and @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Hungary bans Pride, mandates $540 fines for attendees. Will use facial recognition to ID people
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Top Doll signing after my @poetrylondon.bsky.social reading at StAnza w @paulfarley.bsky.social & Janette Achariya 💗
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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/...
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, Messiaen and the Birds
Poet Michael Symmons Roberts explores composer Olivier Messiaen's obsession with birdsong.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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 🙏 broligarchy.substack.com
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Dates for Top Doll out & about this Spring 🌼
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Reading w @ellafrears.bsky.social & others at @sohopolypoetry on 7 March. Come thru!!! 🎶✨🎶
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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...
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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!
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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Are Bloomsbury standing up to Amazon’s ridiculous demands??? Huge if so. Anyone know the inside gossip?
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
No more Bloomsbury books available on Amazon 👀👀
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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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...
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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.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
As best you can, ignore him.
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John Field | Poor Rude Lines @johnfield1.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
'Top Doll', @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social's T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed novel-in-verse – a bravura, polyphonic exploration of obsession, mortality and an unflinching look at the history of slavery in America. My review: tseliot.com/prize/the-t-... #poetry #TSEliots
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Full moon in Gemini from the Master Shipwrights House ✨
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
May her spirit soar. I was also just about to post this! Sharing in solidarity and BIGlove Xx
Text: We're back to what you asked-Where do you go to rest? Well, you should have some friends that you can go to. Friends that you can laugh with. Friends who are not going to laugh at you, who are going to be a part of you, who are not going to use you.
Am I making sense? That's really all I know about care and love. You have to allow people to care for you.
You need care, but you have to allow people to care. It goes both ways. I care for you, but you have to allow me. It is actually a very similar thing with love. You have to love me. And I, well, I have to let you love me.
- Nikki Giovanni
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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I hope I die warmed by the life that I tried to live — Nikki Giovanni 🖤🙏🏾
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Even Santa’s feeling it 👀
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Biggest thanks to @betarish.bsky.social for including Too Doll in this stellar list ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My poetry books of the year for @theguardian.com; it was v tricky to get it down to this selection. But a rich year all told: www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
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The best poetry books of 2024
The joy of house parties, an email to an estate agent, tales from a billionaire’s dolls and more
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
So excited! Too Doll is one of @rishidastidar’s Books of the Year 🙏🏾🩵🔥💎
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♘ 𝕴𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖍 千尺丨几Ꮆ乇 ☘️⚔️ @irish-pickle.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I am so tired of waiting, aren’t you, For the world to become good and beautiful and kind?  Let’s take a knife and cut the world in two- And see what worms are eating At the rind.      Langston Hughes
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Shivanee Ramlochan @novelniche.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
From now til the end of November, each day I'll share a Caribbean book that's shaped me. Golden Child, by Claire Adam, harrows me. An unsettling, achingly real novel about two young boys born into a society that prizes education to deathly ends, this is Trinidad on the page that hurts, blisters. 🇹🇹
The book cover of Golden Child, by Claire Adam.
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Nostalgia
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
At the launch of @afropean.bsky.social photobook with Home is Not a Place collaborator Roger Robinson! 💎✨🪽
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Top Doll also out n about!! 👀 w the T S Eliot crew 👻🪽✨
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Hannah Copley @hannahcopley.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
There are now a few signed copies of Lapwing on the T.S Eliot Prize display at @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social I could spend all day in there 💚
Image of poetry collections grouped together within a T.S Eliot Prize nominees 2024 display
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hope & the Fountain of Youth.
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Dear friends, please take this with you on your commute; listen while walking your dog; find minutes in the blur of our busyness to hear Lena and Fady talk to Diana Buttu about the genocide that the US Congress refused to stop arming today. I beg you to listen.
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hello––I'm interested in poetry & songs written to protest against harm to rivers or to protect them from harm. Not just paeans to rivers, of which there are many. But words to protest or protect. Can you recommend anything? I’d really like to grow a list. Any century, language, culture, custom.
River running through wooded & arable landscape in England, seen from an angled aerial viewpoint
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I’m here on socials when I could be reading this ! 🔥 Jason-Allen Paisant’s The Possibility of Tenderness - a memoir of Plants & Dreams. On the magical properties of bush tea amongst other revelations 🌎
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I’ve not cooked this before but it sounds delicious. I only wish the Palestinian farmers that grew it were able to continue growing and eating it themselves.
Palestinian freekeh
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Yes. It was delicious.
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
In The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, after hearing about a massive & deadly scapegoating, the narrator asks why the peasants didn't attack the landlords, their true enemies, & is told, "When your real enemies are too strong, you get weaker enemies," & every day I think about this & also see it
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