The Set - evaluation

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These are some of the sites I've found interesting for one reason or another. This list is a short one - a very short one - for the time being. There are many outstanding sites which I appreciate very much, which I've studied carefully but which I haven't included in this list as yet. ('Studied' is the word - very often, I've printed out many pages from the sites, so that I could give them my full attention later.) The list includes only a little information about each site.. The sites are very diverse but linkages between the subjects are developed in 'Linkage and Contrast.' A list of book and print magazine references will eventually be added to this page.

Radical thinking

http://www.monbiot.com The site of George Monbiot, journalist, author, activist.

Humanitarian sites

The death penalty (there are a very large number of superb sites, particularly in the USA.)

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/
Outstanding, indispensable, very comprehensive source of information concerning the death penalty as applied in the USA - and of much wider relevance.

http://acadp.com
Australian Coalition against the Death Penalty.

Media

http://www.whitedot.org
Web site of 'The international campaign against television.'

Animal welfare

http://www.wspa.org.uk
The World Society for the Protection of Animals.

http://ciwf.co.uk/default.htm
Compassion in World Farming: sustained action against factory farming.

http://www.captiveanimals.org
The Web site of The Captive Animals' Protection Society.

Food, gardening, farming and the environment

http://www.cat.org.uk
The site of the Centre for Alternative Technology

http://www.sustain.web.org/index.asp
'Food miles,' and other matters.

http://www.hdra.org.uk/
HDRA, the organic organisation.

http://www.cpre.org.uk
The campaign to protect rural England.

Poetry and other writing

http://www.jaredcarter.com

The personal Web site of the American poet Jared Carter.When I first saw this site, I was reminded of a mature garden - but of a garden which is not only beautiful but also functional, easy to use. My one reservation about the design of the site concerns the use of the symbol in the lower right hand side of each page which takes the user back to Home. Its use isn't at all apparent at first sight and if these non-standard symbols were in general use, Web sites would be harder to navigate.

http://www.poetrykit.com

Very, very comprehensive. Far more than a directory - it contains information which is fascinating and important.

http://www.greatworks.org.uk/

'GreatWorks' is the site of Peter Philpott, a very useful, interesting and comprehensive site which furthers innovative and experimental writing. Consult it for the literary equivalent of Stockhausen or Peter Maxwell Davies rather than Andrew L. Webber.

http://www.textetc.com

The Web site of C. John Holcombe, whose approach to literature is consistently interesting and also very wide-ranging, for example, in his references to philosophy and literary theory. His adventurous cultural and intellectual interests energize his site but he also offers advice and comment which is balanced, practical, genuinely helpful. His analyses of his own poetry are of very great interest. An astonishing site.

http://www.edwardpicot.com

Edward Picot is a very interesting commentator on the new media, but also a notable practitioner himself, whose writing is spare and unadorned. And the author of a valuable book, 'Outcasts from Eden: Ideas of Landscape in British Poetry since 1945'