1st Edition
Poetry and the Global Climate Crisis Creative Educational Approaches to Complex Challenges
Introduction
Part I: Perspectives on Indigenous Poetries
Chapter 1: Embodiment and Solace: The Entanglement of Culture with Nature in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand Ecopoetry
Janet Newman
Chapter 2: From Burning Beds to Rising Seas: Environmental Issues in the Song Lyrics of Midnight Oil
Knut Øystein Høvik
Chapter 3: From Standing Rock to Flint, Michigan: How Indigenous Poets Contextualise the Fight for Clean Water
Ronnie K. Stephens
Part II: Perspectives on the More-than-Human
Chapter 4: Last Migrations: The Poetry of Migratory Birds
Melanie Duckworth and Aidan Coleman
Chapter 5: Animal Politics and Ecological Haiku
Dean Anthony Brink
Chapter 6: Greeting a Ginkgo: How Anthropomorphism in Poetry Can Inspire Eco-Empathy
Christina Thatcher
Chapter 7: Of Jellyfish, Lichen, and Other More-Than-Human Matter: Ecopoethical Writing Research as Transformative Politics
Katharina Maria Kalinowski and Rosanne van der Voet.
Chapter 8: Using Poetry to Learn from the Animals We Brought to Antarctica
Caitlin Scarano
Part III: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 9: Imaging the Real in Times of Crisis: Empowerment and Ecosophy in Shaun Tan’s Tales from The Inner City
Heidi Silje Moen
Chapter 10: Vegetal Relationality: Three Australian [Eco]poets
Anne Buchanan Stuart
Chapter 11: Carceral Climates: Poetry, Ecology, and the U.S. Prison System
Angela Sorby
Chapter 12: Black Ecologies, the “Weather,” and “Renegade” Poetic Sensorium
Hanna Musiol
Chapter 13: “Everything depends on us:” The Ecofeminist Vision in Naomi Shihab Nye’s Honeybee
Sandra Lee Kleppe
Part IV: Global Juxtapositions
Chapter 14: Mitigating Ecological Threats: Amplifying Environmental Activism in Gabeba Baderoon’s Poetry
Niyi Akingbe
Chapter 15: Capitalism and Environmental Activism in Selected Nigerian Poetry
Mariam Salaudeen and Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
Chapter 16: Bugtong, or the Philippine Riddle as an Ecopoem
Christian Jil R. Benitez
Chapter 17: Poetry and Ecological Awareness: Inspiration from Pierluigi Cappello’s Poetry
Marzia Varutti
Conclusion: From Poetry to the World
Biography
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.
