In the November issue of Prospect, poet Gwyneth Lewis (left) attends a writers' symposium in Norwich on nature and culture and discovers this is 'an increasingly fraught business'. Lewis asks,
'how can writers become advocates for the natural world without propagandising and undermining their credibility.' (Subscriber link only.)
See also on this blog keep it distinct, the message is not to have one, artists and activists and just asking.
Update: the Book of Barely Imagined Beings blogged about Lewis's article on Saturday and defends some other contributors against the charge that they're 'old hat'. The post also seconds my remarks on art and activism.
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