An awareness of the precarious state of our planet has suddenly reached critical mass. At last we may be witnessing a quantum leap in ecological understanding. This has been engendered by a relentless stream of publications from scholars, scientists and environmentalists and has been galvanised, most recently and dramatically, by the collective fury of the young. Fearlessly, they have hammered the word ‘extinction’ into our complacent minds. But contemporary poets have also been part of this momentous change. Two recent volumes stand out: Patricia Helen Wooldridge’s Sea Poetics and Kay Syrad’s ...
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