"Earth Shattering" lines up a chorus of over two hundred poems
addressing environmental destruction. Whether the subject - or
target - is the whole earth (global warming, climate change,
extinction of species, planetary catastrophe)or landscapes,
homelands and cities (polluting rivers and seas, fouling the air,
felling trees and forests), there are poems here to alert and alarm
anyone willing to read or listen. Other poems celebrate the rapidly
vanishing natural world, or lament what has already been lost, or
even find a glimmer of hope through efforts to conserve, recycle
and rethink. Earth Shattering's words of warning include
contributions from many great writers of the past as well as
leading contemporary poets from around the world, ranging from
Wordsworth, Clare, Hopkins, Hardy, Rilke and Charlotte Mew to
Wendell Berry, Helen Dunmore, Joy Harjo, Denise Levertov, W. S.
Merwin and Gary Snyder. This is the first anthology to show the
full range of ecopoetry, from the wilderness poetry of ancient
China to 21st-century native American poetry, with postcolonial and
feminist perspectives represented by writers such as Derek Walcott,
Ernesto Cardinal,Oodgeroo and Susan Griffin. Ecopoetry goes beyond
traditional nature poetry to take on distinctly contemporary
issues, recognising the interdependence of all life on earth, the
wildness and otherness of nature, and the irresponsibility of our
attempts to tame and plunder nature. The poems dramatise the
dangers and poverty of a modern world perilously cut off from
nature and ruled by technology, self-interest and economic power.
As the world's politicians and corporations orchestrate our
headlong rush towards Eco- Armageddon, poetry may seem like a
hopeless gesture. But its power is in the detail, in the force of
each individual poem, in every poem's effect on every reader. And
anyone whose resolve is stirred will strengthen the collective call
for change.
General
| Imprint: |
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
June 2023 |
| Editors: |
Neil Astley
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| Dimensions: |
210 x 210 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
256 |
| Edition: |
Annotated edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-85224-774-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-85224-774-6 |
| Barcode: |
9781852247744 |
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