Image from www.dpchallenge.com The Twelve Days of Christmas is supposed to be a pleasant little Christmas song about the lovely gifts that “my true love gave to me.” But in the hands, or is that pen, of the new and first female Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, it has become a raging blast at the injustices and grim events of

the year, including this week’s conference on climate change and the war in Afghanistan. Hardly a hymn of Christmas cheer, she starts with “On the first day of Christmas, a buzzard on a branch. In Afghanistan, no partridg… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Poet Laureate Tackles Climate Change and Copenhagen Conference