Poetry and the Global Climate Crisis

<p>This book demonstrates how humans can become sensitized to and intervene in environmental degradation by writing reading analyzing and teaching poetry. It offers both theoretical and practice-based essays providing a diversity of approaches and voices that will be useful in the classroom and beyond.</p><p>The chapters in this edited collection explore how poetry can make readers climate-ready and climate-responsive through creativity empathy and empowerment. The book encompasses work from or about Oceania Africa Europe North America Asia and Antarctica integrating poetry into discussions of specific local and global issues including the value of Indigenous responses to climate change; the dynamics of climate migration; the shifting boundaries between the human and more-than-human world; the ecopoetics of the prison-industrial complex; and the ongoing environmental effects of colonialism racism and sexism. With numerous examples of how poetry reading teaching and learning can enhance or modify mindsets the book focuses on offering creative practical approaches and tools that educators can implement into their teaching and equipping them with the theoretical knowledge to support these.</p><p>This volume will appeal to educational professionals engaged in teaching environmental sustainability and development topics particularly from a humanities-led perspective.</p>