S2 Ep 5: Fifteen Million Plastic Bags by Adrian Mitchell

14/10/2024 2 min Episodio 21
S2 Ep 5: Fifteen Million Plastic Bags by Adrian Mitchell

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Mitchell was a journalist, playwright and protest poet committed to Nuclear Disarmament. The subject of this poem are the vast reserves of body bags stored up in anticipation during the Cold War for millions of fatalities. Angela Carter described him, a “joyous, acrid and demotic tumbling lyricist Pied Piper determinedly singing us away from catastrophe.”
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