This landmark anthology, 100 Poems to Save the Earth, presents a positive and determined impulse to change for the better how human beings interact with the environment.
These imaginative, questing poems reveal our crisis as fundamentally a crisis of perception. We can no longer view Earth as a collection of resources to be exploited but must see it as the living web of connections and relationships that it is.
The voices gathered call for ecological justice, an ethics of care for the earth and for each other. The eclectic mix of poets - rural and urban - link issues of social injustice and the need to protect the environment, emphasizing a sweeping urgency. The time for awareness building is over. This anthology, with its incisive Foreword, is a call to action to fight the threat facing the only planet we have.
Poetry has the power to inspire thought and action. As these poems show, it speaks directly but is the opposite of simplistic; it can be subtle and allusive, consoling or incendiary. And it can play a part in saving the earth.
'This compelling suite of poems is a timely reminder to cherish, to celebrate. What could be more enjoyable than beautiful poems about this beautiful planet? This collection is immediate, moving, wise and unforgettable as it is unputdownable!' - Daljit Nagra
'These achingly beautiful poems, from a range of stellar talents, animate and explore the sometimes-frayed connection we have with our precious planet and remind us how to refind ourselves amid the landscape we call home'- Sonya Huber
'Neither one hundred nor one billion poems will save the planet, but it is an absolute necessity for poets to celebrate our world and engage with its future. This is a marvellous compendium to show how they are attempting this...' - Robert Minhinnick
About the Author: Zoë Brigley has three PBS recommended poetry collections: The Secret (2007), Conquest (2012), and Hand & Skull (2019) (all from Bloodaxe); and recently a poetry chapbook, Aubade After A French Movie (Broken Sleep 2020). She has a collection of nonfiction essays Notes from a Swing State (Parthian 2019). She is Assistant Professor in English at the Ohio State University where she produces an anti-violence podcast: Sinister Myth. She won an Eric Gregory Award for the best British poets under 30, was Forward Prize commended, and listed in the Dylan Thomas Prize. Kristian Evans is a poet and editor from Kenfig in south Wales, interested in ecological philosophy, animism, and the history of magic. He has written several texts for performance and a chapbook of poems, Unleaving (HappenStance 2015). A keen amateur naturalist, he writes a regular column "A Kenfig Journal" for the environmental charity Sustainable Wales.
