The Last Days of Petrol

<p>Bridget Khursheed's interest is in ecopoetry and the teetering intersections between landscape (or the shape of things) nature and population. Her new collection <em>The Last Days of Petrol</em> centres on how we cannot imagine that the world as we know is about to change in personal political or global terms. Summed up in a couple of quotes: one from George Eliot - A man will tell you that he has worked in a mine for forty years unhurt by an accident as a reason why he should apprehend no danger though the roof is beginning to sink; and it is often observable that the older a man gets the more difficult it is to him to retain a believing conception of his own death. And one that is included in the collection itself from Hugh MacDiarmid - It is a frenzied and chaotic age Like a growth of weeds on the site of a demolished building. We continue to search for our homes and perhaps that will transform our relationship to earth.</p><p><br></p>