This book is cheap – so it’s not a big risk to buy one! And all royalties go to support creative campaigning for environmental justice.
It’s an anthology of writing (poems and short essays) about the environmental state we’re in organised in sections: Love, Loss, Emergence, Hope and Action, and with a foreword by Emma Thompson. The editors/compilers are four theatre-makers and writers, all female, who were struck by the evidence of climate change and ecological breakdown, and inspired by the actions of Extinction Rebellion, and wanted to do something. This anthology is their call to action.
It’s a varied selection – quite a lot of contributions from young people and a wide variety of styles. Guess what? I liked some of them more than others, and so will you, but my likes may be your dislikes.
Jackie Morris has illustrated the book with some flying Swallows but the production values are quite modest – which means the book is cheap, and has come out quickly, given that it was conceived back in February.
The book is uplifting not miserable. It makes a good Christmas present for the right person – and there are many people for whom this would be the right present.
Letters to the Earth: writing to a planet in crisis, compiled and edited by Anna Hope, Jo McInnes, Kay Michael and Grace Pengelly is published by Harper Collins (at least it will be on 14 November).
Remarkable Birds by Mark Avery is published by Thames and Hudson – for reviews see here.
Inglorious: conflict in the uplands by Mark Avery is published by Bloomsbury – for reviews see here.
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