Emma Must

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Emma Must
Born1966 (age 5758)
NationalityEnglish
Occupation(s)Environmental activist, poet, teacher
Awards Goldman Environmental Prize (1995)

Emma Must (born 1966) is an English environmental activist, teacher, and poet. [1] [2]

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Must was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1995 [3] for her efforts on land protection, particularly her influence on British road building policies through her road protest against the M3 motorway extension at Twyford Down, near where she grew up. [4] [5] She went on to work with Alarm UK! [3] (an umbrella group for the nationwide road building protest), Transport 2000 [3] (later renamed Campaign for Better Transport), and the World Development Movement. [3]

Must studied a PhD in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen's University in Belfast, [2] focusing on eco-poetry and eco-criticism. [6] She has been published in magazines and journals in Ireland and the UK, [6] such as Abridged, The Open Ear and The Poet's Place. [2] [7] In 2016 she was named as one of the Rising Generation of poets by Poetry Ireland Review. [8] In 2019 she won the inaugural Environmental Defenders Prize at the Ginkgo Awards for her poem, "Toll". [5] [8]

She previously worked as a librarian.

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  4. Williams, Rhys (27 July 1993). "Protester jailed for defying Twyford Down ban is freed: Activist agrees to abide by injunction to stay away from M3 site at centre of environmental battle". The Independent . Retrieved 26 March 2014. ONE of the seven protesters jailed last Friday for defying a High Court injunction was freed ... The other six protesters - Jason Torrance, Philip Pritchard, Simon Fairlie, Robert Bear, Rebecca Lush and Emma Must - are expected to serve out their term. ... Emma Must, 27, who works as a children's librarian in Winchester and is a member of the Friends of Twyford Down, has been involved in the campaign since the beginning of the year.
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