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Paperback ´ Uncivilisation PDF õ Dark Mountain Project He lives in the west of IrelandHe studied modern history at Oxford University where he was also heavily involved in the road protest movement of the early 1990sAfter graduating Paul spent two months in Indonesia working on conservation projects in Borneo and Java Back in the UK he worked for a year on the staff of the Independent newspaper Following a three year stint as a campaign writer for an environmental NGO he was appointed deputy editor of The Ecologist where he worked for two years under the editorship of Zac GoldsmithHe left the Ecologist in 2001 to write his first book One No Many Yeses a political travelogue which explored the growing anti capitalist movement around the world The book was published in 2003 by Simon and Schuster in six languages across 13 countriesIn the early 2000s having spent time with the tribal people of West Papua who continue to be brutally colonised by the Indonesian government and military Paul was instrumental in setting up the Free West Papua Campaign which he also helped to run for a timePaul’s second book Real England was published in 2008 by Portobello An exploration of the changing face of his home country in an age of globalisation the book was uoted in speeches by the Prime Minister and the Archbishop of Canterbury helped inspire the success of the hit West End play ‘Jerusalem’ and saw its author compared to Cobbett and Orwell by than one newspaperIn 2009 Paul launched with Dougald Hine the Dark Mountain Project – a call for a literary movement to respond to the ongoing collapse of the world’s ecological and economic certainties What began as a self published pamphlet has become a global network of writers artists and thinkers Paul is now the Project’s director and one of its editorsIn 2011 Paul’s first collection of poetry Kidland was published by Salmon Since the mid 1990s Paul’s poetry has been published in magazines including Envoi Iota Poetry Life and nthposition He has been awarded the BBC Wildlife Poet of the Year Award and the Poetry Life Prize and was narrowly pipped to the post in the Thomas Hardy Society’s annual competitionPaul’s journalism has appeared in the Guardian Independent Daily Telegraph Daily Express Le Monde New Statesman Ecologist New Internationalist Big Issue Adbusters BBC Wildlife and openDemocracy for which he has also worked as a commissioning editor He has appeared on various TV and radio programmes most shamefully ‘This Morning with Richard and Judy’ He is also the author of ‘Your Countryside Your Choice’ a report on the future of the countryside published in 2005 by the Campaign to Protect Rural England