This book demonstrates how humans can become sensitised to, and intervene in, environmental degradation by writing, reading, analysing and teaching poetry. For educational professionals engaged in teaching environmental, sustainability, and development topics, particularly from a humanities-led perspective.

Part I: Perspectives on Indigenous Poetries 1. Embodiment and Solace: The Entanglement of Culture with Nature in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand Ecopoetry 2. From Burning Beds to Rising Seas: Environmental Issues in the Song Lyrics of Midnight Oil 3. From Standing Rock to Flint, Michigan: How Indigenous Poets Contextualise the Fight for Clean Water Part II: Perspectives on the More-than-Human 4. Last Migrations: The Poetry of Migratory Birds 5. Animal Politics and Ecological Haiku 6. Greeting a Ginkgo: How Anthropomorphism in Poetry Can Inspire Eco-Empathy 7. Of Jellyfish, Lichen, and Other More-Than-Human Matter: Ecopoethical Writing Research as Transformative Politics 8. Using Poetry to Learn from the Animals We Brought to Antarctica Part III: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives 9. Imaging the Real in Times of Crisis: Empowerment and Ecosophy in Shaun Tan's Tales from The Inner City 10. Vegetal Relationality: Three Australian [Eco]poets 11. Carceral Climates: Poetry, Ecology, and the U.S. Prison System 12. Black Ecologies, the "Weather," and "Renegade" Poetic Sensorium 13. "Everything depends on us:" The Ecofeminist Vision in Naomi Shihab Nye's Honeybee Part IV: Global Juxtapositions 14. Mitigating Ecological Threats: Amplifying Environmental Activism in Gabeba Baderoon's Poetry 15. Capitalism and Environmental Activism in Selected Nigerian Poetry 16. Bugtong, or the Philippine Riddle as an Ecopoem 17. Poetry and Ecological Awareness: Inspiration from Pierluigi Cappello's Poetry Conclusion: From Poetry to the World