Watch your head : writers & artists respond to the climate crisis / edited by Kathryn Mockler ; with Madhur Anand, Stephen Collis, Jennifer Dorner, Catherine Graham, Elena Johnson, Canisia Lubrin, Kim Mannix, June Pak, Sina Queyras, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Rasiqra Revulva, Yusuf Saadi, Sanchari Sur, & Jacqueline Valencia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mockler, Kathryn, 1971- editor.

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Watch your head (Toronto, Ont.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Literary collections.

Climatic changes.

Global warming--Literary collections.

Global warming.

Environmental protection in art.

Art, Modern--21st century.

Art, Modern.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

279 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Coach House Books, [2020]

Summary:

"Art about the climate crisis that calls for justice and systemic change while raising funds to help tackle the problem. We are in a climate emergency. The polar bears are starving, Australia is burning. Climate anxiety--like sea levels--is rising to unprecedented levels. In response to this, poet and editor Kathryn Mockler created a website where writers and artists could post creative works that respond to this crisis. Watch Your Head curates the best poems, stories, essays, and images related to our environmental crisis. The work is ranty, mourning, desperate, in-your-face, hopeful, healing, transformative, and radical. It calls out hypocrisy and injustice to inspire you to do whatever you can--volunteer for a climate justice organization, support land and water defenders, call out the media--and it'll make you feel less alone in your worry."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: We Will Tell Them of Our Dominion / Terese Mason Pierre

Empty Spaces (3) / Jordan Abel

Humpbacks, Howe Sound / Kathleen McCracken

Whale-Fall Suspension / Adam Sol

High School Fever (excerpt) / Kaie Kellough

Goodbye / Gary Barwin

Together We Will Rise or Fall / Jonina Kirton

On Growth / Rae Armantrout

Speculative Fiction Weird / Sarah Mangle

Crossing the Line / Jessica Houston

The Greening

The Blue Line / Aude Moreau

Sleeping Warrior Dreams of Pastures and Power / Shelley Niro

Sleeping Warrior, Dressing Warrior

Reclaiming Our Names / Waubgeshig Rice

Whether the Heavens Break / Margaret Christakos

For the Feral Splendour that Remains / C.A. Conrad

Altered After Too Many Years Under the Mask

Halfling bear (eclipse) / Joanne Arnott

As Long As / Nicole Brossard

Soft body tidalectics / Whitney French

You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency / Jessica Le

I never got over sixty likes / Kirby

The Heart is a Knot / Chris Bailey

Glitter / Karen Lee

The Larger Forgetting (excerpt) / Laurie D. Graham

Rhapsodic Trip / Jen Currin

To Plant Life (all) / Francine Cunningham

Grey Water / Carleigh Baker

The World Ends for Good This Time / Manahil Bandukwala

Potatoes / Mercedes Eng

The Canada Goose / Sarah Pereux

Trinity

Flotsam / Sheniz Janmohamed

Lantern Letter: A Zuihitsu / Ching-In Chen

The Poplar Vote / Kazim Ali

How to Small / Erin Moure

Sudbury / Jonathan Ball

Anemone / Erin Robinsong

On Radiance / Adrian De Leon

Amateur Kittens Dreaming Solar Energy (excerpt) / Jacob Wren

How to survive in a time of great urgency / Jody Chan

Climate anxiety / Trynne Delaney

All this to say / Natalie Lim

Ashen Fields / Ira Reinhart-Smith

Requies / Pablo Strauss

Shall We Gather / Sue Sinclair

Species Made Extinct by Human Activities / Tiffany Morris

I still want eyelid bees / Nikki Reimer

Only the Sun / Emily Schultz

26 / Kunjana Parashar

Under the Scope, Micro / Barry Pottle

Hopeful Antibodies

Ruin Value / Adam Gunn

Tres-pass 1 / Eshrat Erfanian

Tres-pass 3

Erratic #4 / Gaye Jackson

Erratic #8

Planet at the Crossroads / Christine Leclerc

Revolution / Jessica Magonet

How to Find Your Way in Strathcona County / Curtis LeBlanc

Refrain / Hari Alluri

I Am Writing a Spell for Your Nervous System / Anna Swanson

Erasure: A Response to `Musee des Beaux Arts' and Suffering / Jenna Butler

Decapitated Palms / Kevin Adonis Browne

King Tide

This Poem is a Dead Zone / Krishnakumar Sankaran

Make a Living / Allison Cobb

Safety Net / Yohani Mendis

Spawning Grounds / Isabella Wang

Debating Foundations / Andrew McEwan

Meltwater Basin / Ellen Chang-Richardson

Ode to a Common Nighthawk / Cory Lavender

To cope / Sakihitowin Awasis

Creation

Snapshot / Jana Prikryl

Snapshot

Forty-Nine / Sue Goyette

Fifty-Five

Fifty-Six

Notes from a Small Place / Simone Dalton

Triple Moments of Light & Industry / Brenda Hillman

The Prospect (excerpt) / Marcella Durand

The Way Carrying Someone Changes How we Love / Ruth Daniell

The Omega Trick / Dani Couture

Tree Sketch #1 / Sacha Archer

Tree Sketch #2

Perspiration, a Conspiracy / Adam Dickinson

Kebsquasheshing / Armand Garnet Ruffo

Environment

Lessons from Prison: A Shackled Pipeline Protestor Reflects / Rita Wong

For those who can still afford it, glaciers will continue to exist / Evie Shockley

Port blockade oven-hot sweet potato / Jane Shi

Jia You

Writing in a Dangerous Time / Carrianne Leung

Artist Statements.

Notes:

Anthology editors include Madhur Anand, Stephen Collis, Jennifer Dorner, Catherine Graham, Elena Johnson, Canisia Lubrin, Kim Mannix, June Pak, Sina Queyras, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Rasiqra Revulva, Yusuf Saadi, Sanchari Sur, and Jacqueline Valencia. Confirmed contributors include Jordan Abel, Rita Wong, Rae Armantrout, Kaie Kellough, CAConrad, Waubgeshig Rice, Shelley Niro, Evie Shockley, Nicole Brossard.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Watch your head.

ISBN:

9781552454121

1552454126

OCLC:

1153041713

Publisher Number:

99985841821