Neil Astley founded Bloodaxe Books in 1978. He has published several other anthologies, including Staying Alive, Being Alive, Being Human and Staying Human, and three collaborations with Pamela Robertson-Pearce, Soul Food and and the DVD-books In Person: 30 Poets and In Person: World Poets. He has also published two poetry collections, Darwin Survivor and Biting My Tongue, and two eco-novels, The End of My Tether (shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award), and The Sheep Who Changed the World.
Any poetry anthology, in any field, inevitably owes something to
those anthologies that have gone before it. But with Earth
Shattering, Neil Astley has set out to do something rather
different – not just moving us well beyond the canon of "nature
poetry" (which a number of other anthologies have also sought to do
over the last few years), but by digging much deeper into the
complexities of the historical relationship between humankind and
the living Earth that sustains us, reflected in a highly
contemporaneous and politically aware way. That will certainly
appeal to environmental activists who will already be familiar with
many of the poets featured in Earth Shattering. But they will
discover a whole lot more than this in this astonishingly eclectic
and wide-ranging anthology.
*Sofia*
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