Nature Matters

There has been a welcome burgeoning of nature writing in recent years. Yet this has stirred questions relating to whose voices are privileged and heard in a space predominantly occupied by Western European traditions and authors. In Nature Matters, poets Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf seek to redress this imbalance. Their genre-enriching anthology presents new and seminal works from writers of the past fifty years to invite us to reconsider nature poetry from a global majority perspective. Image-rich and formally diverse, the poems explore fundamental themes such as climate crisis and the Anthropocene; urban nature, solitude and alienation; protest and radical empathy; lost Indigenous wisdom and alternative histories.