Earth Shattering: Ecopoems - Couverture souple

Astley, Neil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852247746 ISBN 13 : 9781852247744

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

Earth Shattering lines up a chorus of over two hundred poems addressing environmental destruction and ecological balance.

Whether the subject 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 illuminate the ecological balance of the rapidly vanishing natural world. The book presents an ecopicture of the earth in all its diversity exposing the many ways in which the very fabric of our living planet is being torn apart.

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, Keats, Clare, Hopkins, Hardy and Rilke to A.R. Ammons, Wendell Berry, John Burnside, Helen Dunmore, Joy Harjo, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Robinson Jeffers, Denise Levertov, W.S. Merwin, Mary Oliver, Peter Reading and Gary Snyder.

This was 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 Cardenal, 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Neil Astley is editor of Bloodaxe Books, which he founded in 1978. His books include novels, poetry collections and anthologies, most notably those in Bloodaxe's Staying Alive anthology series: Staying Alive (2002), Being Alive (2004), Being Human (2011), and Staying Human (2020), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

His other anthologies (all these from Bloodaxe) include Do Not Go Gentle: poems for funerals (2003), Passionfood: 100 Love Poems (2005/2014), Soul Food: nourishing poems for starved minds [with Pamela Robertson-Pearce] (2007), Earth Shattering: ecopoems (2007), the DVD-book In Person: 30 Poets (2008) [filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce], Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy (2012), The Hundred Years' War: modern war poems (2014), Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Peculiar: a book of strange & comic poems (2015), the DVD-book In Person: World Poets (2017) [filmed with Pamela Robertson-Pearce], Land of Three Rivers: the poetry of North-East England (2017) and [with Brendan Kennelly] The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me (2022).

He has published two novels, The End of My Tether (Flambard, 2002; Scribner, 2003), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award, and The Sheep Who Changed the World (Flambard, 2005), and two poetry collections, Darwin Survivor (Peterloo Poets, 1988), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and Biting My Tongue (1995). In 2012 Candlestick Press published his selection of Ten Poems About Sheep in its renowned pamphlet series.

He received an Eric Gregory Award for his poetry, was given a D.Litt from Newcastle University for his work with Bloodaxe Books, and in 2018 was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in Northumberland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852247746
• ISBN 13: 9781852247744
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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