I’m happy to share a new selection of environmentally themed books — including poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
Please check them out…
Green to Grey: An Environmental Anthology
Edited by Ian Thomas Shaw and Timothy P. Niedermann
The eclectic stories in this anthology speak to our changing climate and degrading environment—the transformation of our world from green to grey. Some stories are sardonic, treating environmental icons and self-serving rhetoricians equally. Others are whimsical, even bitterly so, and some are sweetly poetic. But their messages are the same: it is time to act.
Contributors include Sang Kim, Cora Siré, Matthew Murphy, Ursual Pflug, Michael Mirolla, Jerry Levy, Caroline Vu, Timothy Niedermann and Ian Thomas Shaw.
Knowing Wonder: An Elephant Story
by Merrill Sapp; Illustrated by Gareth Hook
Experience the rhythm of life within an elephant family. Journey with Lua as she leads her family along the interwoven paths that she shares with humans and other animals as they confront a land on the brink of collapse. Both fiction and non-fiction, Knowing Wonder: An Elephant Story invites you to explore the world of elephants within the context of real behavior and events connected with scientific insight into their inner lives. You will never look at elephants the same.
In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocolyse
By Mary Mackey
In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocalypse offers readers 64 new, beautifully-written, profound poems by Mary Mackey, winner of the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award for Best Book in the United States Published by a Small Press. In this stunning collection, Mackey unflinchingly imagines the future we will face as the Earth’ s climate changes, while at the same time offering readers inspiring poems that describe how mutual aid and love can preserve hope and joy in even the most difficult of times.
The Next World: Poems
By Christien Gholson
The Next World explores the grief, anger, horror and illumination found on the border between the world as it is now and the one it is evolving into in the wake of climate change catastrophes. These poems wrestle with the difficulty of acknowledging a myriad of endings: species, places, but also the fundamental seasonal and environmental cycles that humans have always known. Simultaneously they explore what regeneration, hope, and “the future” might mean for us now. These poems allow for confusion, for questions, finding the beauty within the terror and revealing the terror inside the beauty.
ReFashion Workshop
By Courtney Barrier
Fast fashion does not want you to be happy. It’s more like an addiction than an art. Award-winning eco fashion artist, designer and spiritual voyager Courtney Barriger draws on her twenty years of experience in the fashion industry to bring a total, ReFashion mindset shift for a healthier planet and a satisfying pleasurable relationship with what you wear. Backed by lead scientists in climate change and toxicology, NGOs and environmental activists, each chapter delivers the facts and helps you discover how living more authentically can have a positive impact on your happiness, the happiness of others and the health of the Earth. Learn to become a steward of the Earth and begin your personal journey to Refashion your life through your wardrobe, one practice at a time.
Amazon
The Vulnerable
By Ed DeJesus
In a world teetering on the brink, where climate change fuels devastating wildfires and a global pandemic erupts, The Vulnerable plunges into the heart of interconnected lives, revealing a tapestry of crime, secrets, and suspense.
Dan DeCosta’s life implodes after he falls for Robin O’Rourke, the missing ginger-haired beauty with her violent ex relentlessly stalking her, thrusting Dan into a terrifying ordeal with the law, financial ruin, and fighting for his life.
Dan’s father, Dick DeCosta, a renowned climate activist targeted by extremist groups, had relocated to Florida to escape their wrath. But Dick is forced to return to Boston, embarking on a frantic race against time to rescue his son while his wife becomes critically ill. Dan’s sister flees wildfires. Long-held family secrets threaten to erupt.
The Vulnerable explores themes of love, loss, and betrayal against a backdrop of worldwide crisis. From the blizzards of Massachusetts and the burning California landscapes to the sun-drenched shores of Florida, a relentless pursuit of justice and survival from escalating personal and global threats unfolds. Will these vulnerable individuals find strength in each other and survive the perils thrust upon them? The answers lie within the pages of this gripping and unforgettable thriller.
Conversations With Extinct Animals
By Patrick Lawler
Patrick Lawler’s second novel, Conversations with Extinct Animal, is a dialogue between psychology and ecology—between poetry and story. A suicide note masquerading as a love letter, the novel transcends genres and keeps kaleidoscopically shifting: sometimes it is an elegy, and sometimes it is a therapy session—but always these are the field notes for the end of the world.
As a collection of characters associated with The Facility come to terms with an individual’s death, they must confront their own losses amid the colossal absence of the twenty-four extinct animals. All the characters float between various inexplicable, mystifying “syndromes” that call into question their identities and, ultimately, call into question the elements of story itself. “Looking at pictures of the Extinct Animals, I can’t help but wonder if it is too late to save the world—especially since there are so many different worlds,” observes the narrator of the novel in his efforts to save the unsavable.
John is co-author, with Midge Raymond, of the Tasmanian mystery Devils Island. He is also author of the novels The Tourist Trail and Where Oceans Hide Their Dead. Co-founder of Ashland Creek Press and editor of Writing for Animals (also now a writing program).
