Poetry and the Global Climate Crisis

ISBN-13: 9781032508566 / Twarda / 2023 / 272 str.

Opis

This book demonstrates how humans can become sensitised to, and intervene in, environmental degradation by writing, reading, analysing and teaching poetry. For educational professionals engaged in teaching environmental, sustainability, and development topics, particularly from a humanities-led perspective.

Spis treści

Part I: Perspectives on Indigenous Poetries  1. Embodiment and Solace: The Entanglement of Culture with Nature in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand Ecopoetry  2. From Burning Beds to Rising Seas: Environmental Issues in the Song Lyrics of Midnight Oil  3. From Standing Rock to Flint, Michigan: How Indigenous Poets Contextualise the Fight for Clean Water  Part II: Perspectives on the More-than-Human  4. Last Migrations: The Poetry of Migratory Birds  5. Animal Politics and Ecological Haiku  6. Greeting a Ginkgo: How Anthropomorphism in Poetry Can Inspire Eco-Empathy  7. Of Jellyfish, Lichen, and Other More-Than-Human Matter: Ecopoethical Writing Research as Transformative Politics  8. Using Poetry to Learn from the Animals We Brought to Antarctica  Part III: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives  9. Imaging the Real in Times of Crisis: Empowerment and Ecosophy in Shaun Tan’s Tales from The Inner City  10. Vegetal Relationality: Three Australian [Eco]poets  11. Carceral Climates: Poetry, Ecology, and the U.S. Prison System  12. Black Ecologies, the “Weather,” and “Renegade” Poetic Sensorium  13. “Everything depends on us:” The Ecofeminist Vision in Naomi Shihab Nye’s Honeybee  Part IV: Global  Juxtapositions   14. Mitigating Ecological Threats: Amplifying Environmental Activism in Gabeba Baderoon’s Poetry   15. Capitalism and Environmental Activism in Selected Nigerian Poetry   16.  Bugtong, or the Philippine Riddle as an Ecopoem   17. Poetry and Ecological Awareness: Inspiration from Pierluigi Cappello’s Poetry  Conclusion: From Poetry to the World

O autorze

Amatoritsero Ede is an international award-winning poet who was born in Nigeria, and he is a literary scholar and Assistant Professor of English at Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada.

Sandra Lee Kleppe is a Professor of English-Language Literature at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Angela Sorby is an award-winning poet and a Full Professor of English at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.