Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology

Ghost Fishing is the first anthology to focus solely on poetry with an eco-justice bent. A culturally diverse collection entering a field where nature poetry anthologies have historically lacked diversity this book presents a rich terrain of contemporary environmental poetry with roots in many cultural traditions.. Eco-justice poetry is poetry born of deep cultural attachment to the land and poetry born of crisis. Aligned with environmental justice activism and thought eco-justice poetry defines environment as “the place we work live play and worship.” This is a shift from romantic notions of nature as a pristine wilderness outside ourselves toward recognition of the environment as home: a source of life health and livelihood.. Ghost Fishing is arranged by topic at key intersections between social justice and the environment such as exile migration and dispossession; war; food production; human relations to the animal world; natural resources and extraction; environmental disaster; and cultural resilience and resistance. This anthology seeks to expand our consciousness about the interrelated nature of our experiences and act as a starting point for conversation about the current state of our environment.