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Earth Shattering: ecopoems Paperback – Illustrated, October 31, 2007

by Neil Astley (Editor)
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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.
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  1. Print length
    256 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Bloodaxe Books
  4. Publication date
    October 31, 2007
  5. Dimensions
    8.25 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1852247746
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1852247744
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"Any poetry anthology, in any field, inevitably owes something to those anthologies that have gone before it. But with Earth Shattering, Neil Astley has set out to do something rather different – not just moving us well beyond the canon of "nature poetry" (which a number of other anthologies have also sought to do over the last few years), but by digging much deeper into the complexities of the historical relationship between humankind and the living Earth that sustains us, reflected in a highly contemporaneous and politically aware way. That will certainly appeal to environmental activists who will already be familiar with many of the poets featured in Earth Shattering. But they will discover a whole lot more than this in this astonishingly eclectic and wide-ranging anthology." - Jonathon Porritt (environmental campaigner)

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Neil Astley founded Bloodaxe Books in 1978. He has published several other anthologies, including Staying Alive, Being Alive, Being Human and Staying Human, and three collaborations with Pamela Robertson-Pearce, Soul Food and and the DVD-books In Person: 30 Poets and In Person: World Poets. He has also published two poetry collections, Darwin Survivor and Biting My Tongue, and two eco-novels, The End of My Tether (shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award), and The Sheep Who Changed the World.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloodaxe Books; Annotated edition (October 31, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1852247746
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1852247744
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.16 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
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Neil Astley is the editor of Bloodaxe Books which he founded in 1978. His books include many anthologies, most notably those in the Staying Alive series: Staying Alive (2002), Being Alive (2004), Being Human (2011) and Staying Human (2020), along with four collaborations with Pamela Robertson-Pearce, Soul Food, Soul Feast and the DVD-books In Person: 30 Poets and In Person: World Poets. He received an Eric Gregory Award for his poetry, and has published two poetry collections, Darwin Survivor and Biting My Tongue, as well as two novels, The End of My Tether (shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award), and The Sheep Who Changed the World. He was given a D.Litt from Newcastle University for his work with Bloodaxe Books in 1995; is a patron and past trustee of Ledbury Poetry Festival; and was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018. He lives in the Tarset valley in Northumberland.

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5.0 out of 5 stars E11 Eco: the core work for all of our performances
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E11 Eco is Transition Leytonstone's ecopoetry performance group. Back in July 2010, this wonderfully comprehensive anthology formed the basis of the group's maiden performance at the Leytonstone Festival. There are so many poems in it which gain tremendously from being performed with passion, as well as others which are best read silently, to oneself. It is an ongoing source of inspiration for me, and other members of E11 Eco, all of whom now own a copy. The book was also presented to the main prizewinner in our Transition Poetry competition!
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