Vegan Poetry engages meaningfully with non-human animals. Vegan Poetry speaks the language of compassion. Vegan Poetry is about animals, for animals and with animals.
Daniel Clark is a vegan writer and translator. He has written essays and articles for Plant Based News, the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law and the UK Centre for Animal Law, among others. Nominated for Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction awards, his poetry and short stories are published in dozens of journals around the world. He performed eco-poetry at COP26 and was a Poetry Society Young Critic 2023. He founded and co-edits Briefly Write.
Articles & Essays
Environment
What Is Sprouting? How To Grow Healthy Food ‘For Pennies’ (Feb 2024)
Amazon Rainforest Faces ‘Unprecedented Stresses’ As Tipping Points Near (Feb 2024)
Amsterdam Is The First EU Capital To Endorse The Plant Based Treaty (Feb 2024)
Shift Funding From Animal Agriculture, Says EU Science Board (Feb 2024)
FAO Roadmap Urges Greater Intensification Of Animal Agriculture (Dec 2023)
Meat Lobby ‘Plans To Sell Itself As Sustainable’ At COP28 (Dec 2023)
Meat Recipes Dominate ‘Climate Conscious’ Media, Study Finds (Oct 2023)
Denmark Unveils ‘Groundbreaking’ Plant-Based Food Roadmap (Oct 2023)
Ethics
Vicars Discuss Veganism: ‘Why Should Christians Care About Animals?’ (Feb 2024)
New Film Exposes Human Impact Of North Carolina Pig Farming (Dec 2023)
UK Banks Provide Billions In Funding For Meat And Dairy Corporations, Study Finds (Dec 2023)
Queen Latifah Takes Aim At ‘Milk Shaming’ In Dairy-Funded Advert (Nov 2023)
Law & Politics
Pro-Meat Ads In UK Supermarkets Prompt ASA Complaints (Jan 2024)
Plans To Ban ‘Meaty’ Vegan Labels On Hold In Belgium (Jan 2024)
‘Re-forming the ban: How to shape hunting legislation around the interests of wildlife’ in UK Journal of Animal Law, available here: Publications | A-LAW (Dec 2023)
Poland Plans To Censor Labels Of Plant-Based Meat Products (Dec 2023)
An Animal Activist Was Found Guilty After Rescuing Farmed Animals – Here’s Why He Did It (Nov 2023)
‘The Marvellous Matadero’, winner of Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law Essay Competition (May 2023)
Health
Doctors Push Back On Claims Veganuary Is A ‘Restrictive, Famine-Detox Diet’ (Jan 2024)
The NHS Could Save £6.7 Billion A Year If Everyone Ate Plant Based, Says Study (Jan 2024)
Netflix Documentary Tracking Identical Twins Inspires People To Go Vegan (Jan 2024)
Antibiotic Overuse On UK Factory Farms ‘Could Kill Over 52,000 Humans By 2050’ (Nov 2023)
Book Reviews
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s The Map of the World, part of the Young Critics Scheme x T.S. Eliot Prize (Dec 2023)
Chapped lips and flimsy tightropes (Nov 2023)
The poem’s the puzzle, or ‘I couldn’t not keep looking’ (Oct 2023)
Everything in between (May 2023)
Seeing things and seething (Jan 2023)
Poems
‘When lowered from the lorry’ in RECESSES Zine (Aug 2023)
‘the world: part’ in Zero Readers (Sep 2022)
Two Poems in The Sunlight Press (March 2022)
‘infighting’ in Acumen (Jan 2022)
‘Sixteen Haiku’, performed at COP26 (Nov 2021)
‘Anatomical Literature’ (translation), winner of In Another Voice (July 2021)
‘Returnings’ in Spelt (July 2021) [out of print]
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