"Earth Shattering" lines up a chorus of over two hundred poems addressing environmental destruction. Whether the subject - or target - is the whole earth (global warming, climate change, extinction of species, planetary catastrophe)or landscapes, homelands and cities (polluting rivers and seas, fouling the air, felling trees and forests), there are poems here to alert and alarm anyone willing to read or listen. Other poems celebrate the rapidly vanishing natural world, or lament what has already been lost, or even find a glimmer of hope through efforts to conserve, recycle and rethink. Earth Shattering's words of warning include contributions from many great writers of the past as well as leading contemporary poets from around the world, ranging from Wordsworth, Clare, Hopkins, Hardy, Rilke and Charlotte Mew to Wendell Berry, Helen Dunmore, Joy Harjo, Denise Levertov, W. S. Merwin and Gary Snyder. This is the first anthology to show the full range of ecopoetry, from the wilderness poetry of ancient China to 21st-century native American poetry, with postcolonial and feminist perspectives represented by writers such as Derek Walcott, Ernesto Cardinal,Oodgeroo and Susan Griffin. Ecopoetry goes beyond traditional nature poetry to take on distinctly contemporary issues, recognising the interdependence of all life on earth, the wildness and otherness of nature, and the irresponsibility of our attempts to tame and plunder nature. The poems dramatise the dangers and poverty of a modern world perilously cut off from nature and ruled by technology, self-interest and economic power. As the world's politicians and corporations orchestrate our headlong rush towards Eco- Armageddon, poetry may seem like a hopeless gesture. But its power is in the detail, in the force of each individual poem, in every poem's effect on every reader. And anyone whose resolve is stirred will strengthen the collective call for change.

Table of Contents:
12 Earth Views 15 Introduction 1. ROOTED IN NATURE The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China T’ao Ch’ien 21 Home Again Among Fields and Gardens Wang Wei 22 In Reply to Su, Who Visited My Wheel-Rim Hermitage When I Wasn’t There to Welcome Him Li Po 22 Reverence-Pavilion Mountain, Sitting Alone 22 Gazing at the Thatch-Hut Mountain Waterfall Tu Fu 23 Spring Prospect 23 Dawn Landscape Han Shan (Cold Mountain) 23 I’ve lived out tens of thousands of years Chia Tao 24 Evening Landscape, Clearing Snow Su Tung p’o 24 6th Moon, 27th Sun, Sipping Wine at Lakeview Tower Henry Thoreau 25 from Walden William Wordsworth 29 Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798 32 from Home at Grasmere 33 from The Prelude (1805) Robinson Jeffers 36 The Coast-Road 37 Life from the Lifeless 37 from De Rerum Virtute 38 Carmel Point Rainer Maria Rilke 38 The Eighth Duino Elegy Don Paterson 40 from Orpheus: A Version of Rilke’s 'Die Sonette an Orpheus' 2. CHANGING THE LANDSCAPE Oliver Goldsmith 42 from The Deserted Village William Cowper 43 The Poplar-Field John Clare 44 The Moors 45 Round Oak and Eastwell William Barnes 46 The Leäne 47 Eclogue: The Common A-Took In John Montague 49 Driving South 3. KILLING THE WILDLIFE John Montague 50 The Last Monster William Matthews 50 Names James Dickey 51 For the Last Wolverine Margaret Atwood 52 Elegy for the Giant Tortoises Fleur Adcock 53 The Last Moa David Constantine 53 Endangered Species W.S. Merwin 54 For a Coming Extinction 54 The Shore Ted Hughes 54 Little Whale Song Mark Doty 55 Visitation Gary Snyder 56 Mother Earth: Her Whales Heathcote Williams 57 from Whale Nation Helen Dunmore 59 Dolphins whistling Edward Thomas 60 The Combe Michael Longley 61 Badger Colin Simms 61 Three Years in Glen Garry 61 ‘Apart from a hundred peacocks’: a menu… Sylvia Plath 62 Pheasant Andrew Motion 63 Sparrow David Wagoner 63 The Author of American Ornithology Sketches a Bird, Now Extinct Tony Harrison 64 from Art & Extinction 64 Fire & Ice 4. UNBALANCE OF NATURE Pollution Ted Hughes 65 If 65 from ‘1984 on “The Tarka Trail”’ Alden Nowlan 67 St John River Brendan Kennelly 67 Milk 69 The Hope of Wings Fred Reed 69 On the Beach Anne Stevenson 69 The Fish Are All Sick Seamus Heaney 70 Augury Margaret Atwood 70 Frogless William Heyen 70 The Host Denise Levertov 71 The Stricken Children The Trees David Wagoner 72 Waiting in a Rain Forest 72 Lost Susan Stewart 72 The Forest Gerard Manley Hopkins 73 Binsey Poplars 74 God’s Grandeur 74 Inversnaid Charlotte Mew 75 The Trees Are Down 76 Domus Caedet Arborem Thomas Hardy 76 Throwing a Tree W.S. Merwin 77 Witness 77 Place 78 To the Insects Interfering with Nature William Blake 79 The Sick Rose Anonymous 79 The Robin and the Redbreast John Keats 79 I Had a Dove Rainer Maria Rilke 79 The Panther Wisława Szymborska 80 In praise of feeling bad about yourself Edwin Brock 80 Song of the Battery Hen W.S. Merwin 81 The Last One Helen Dunmore 82 Ploughing the roughlands Colin Simms 82 Now that the rivers are bringing down some loam John Kinsella 83 Why They Stripped the Last Trees from the Banks of the Creek Edward Thomas 83 Women He Liked 83 First Known When Lost John Heath-Stubbs 84 The Green Man’s Last Will and Testament Neil Astley 85 The Green Knight’s Lament Country to City John Montague 87 Demolition Ireland 87 from Hymn to the New Omagh Road Max Garland 88 You Miss It Philip Larkin 88 Going, Going John Betjeman 89 Harvest Hymn 90 Inexpensive Progress Cynthia Gomez 91 San José: a poem Esther Iverem 91 Earth Screaming Denise Levertov 93 Those Who Want Out Tomas Tranströmer 93 Schubertiana Chase Twichell 95 City Animals 96 The Devil I Don’t Know 97 The Rule of the North Star A.R. Ammons 99 Gravelly Run 99 The City Limits 99 Corsons Inlet G.F. Dutton 101 the high flats at Craigston 5. LOSS AND PERSISTENCE Gary Snyder 102 Front Lines 102 For All 102 For the Children 103 By Frazier Creek Falls David Craig 104 Against Looting Peter Reading 105 from -273.15 Pablo Neruda 108 Oh Earth, Wait for Me Denise Levertov 108 Come into Animal Presence Philip Levine 108 Animals Are Passing from Our Lives Paal-Helge Haugen 109 (He comes into view) Allison Funk 110 The Whooping Cranes Peter Reading 110 Endangered Kathleen Jamie 111 Frogs Dorianne Laux 111 The Orgasms of Organisms Stanley Kunitz 112 The Snakes of September D.H. Lawrence 113 Snake John Montague 114 The Trout Richard Hugo 115 Trout Andrew Hudgins 115 The Persistence of Nature in Our Lives Seamus Heaney 116 from Squarings Alice Oswald 116 Birdsong for Two Voices 116 Song of a Stone Philippe Jaccottet 118 ‘Each flower is a little night’ 118 The Voice Robert Hayden 118 The Night-Blooming Cereus Thomas Hardy 119 An August Midnight Giacomo Leopardi 120 The Solitary Thrush Michael Longley 121 Leopardi’s Song Thrush William Matthews 121 Civilisation and Its Discontents Philip Larkin 122 The Trees 6. THE GREAT WEB Robert Adamson 123 Meshing bends in the light Galway Kinnell 124 Daybreak W.S. Merwin 124 Shore Birds Michael Longley 124 Echoes Dermot Healy 125 A Ball of Starlings Peter Fallon 125 A Refrain Mark Doty 126 Migratory Michael Longley 127 The Osprey Robert Adamson 127 The stone curlew Dana Gioia 128 Becoming a Redwood Wendell Berry 129 from A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 132 The Wish To Be Generous 132 A Vision 132 Dark with Power 132 The Peace of Wild Things Jim Harrison 132 from Geo-Bestiary Pattiann Rogers 133 A Common Sight 134 The Laying On of Hands 135 The Singing Place John Clare 136 ‘All nature has a feeling’ Theodore Roethke 136 Moss-gathering Dinah Livingstone 136 Sweetness Louise Bogan 137 Night Frances Horovitz 137 Rain – Birdoswald Denise Levertov 138 The Life Around Us Linda McCarriston 138 Riding Out at Evening Robert Wrigley 139 Kissing a Horse James Wright 139 A Blessing 139 Yes, But Mary Oliver 140 Five a.m. in the Pinewoods 141 Morning Poem 141 Some Questions You Might Ask Ken Smith 142 Grass Pablo Neruda 142 Oneness Guillevic 143 from Things 144 from Carnac Caitríona O’Reilly 145 The River Linda Gregerson 146 Waterborne Lorine Niedecker 146 ‘Far reach of sand’ 146 Paean to Place Basil Bunting 150 from Briggflatts Denise Levertov 151 Living R.S. Thomas 151 Autumn on the Land John Keats 151 To Autumn W.S. Merwin 152 Chord David Scott 153 A Long Way from Bread Seamus Heaney 154 Churning Day Dennis O’Driscoll 155 Life Cycle George Mackay Brown 155 Christmas Poem 155 Horse Patrick Kavanagh 156 A Christmas Childhood 157 Canal Bank Walk Denise Levertov 157 Web Peter Redgrove 157 My Father’s Spider A.R. Ammons 158 Identity Jane Hirshfield 159 Happiness Galway Kinnell 159 Saint Francis and the Sow 160 The Bear 7. EXPLOITATION Margaret Atwood 162 The Moment Kathleen McPhilemy 162 Blackthorn Pascal Petit 162 Landowners Peter Reading 163 Corporate Elizabeth Bishop 164 Brazil, January 1, 1502 Derek Walcott 165 from The Schooner Flight W.S. Merwin 166 The Asians Dying Ernesto Cardenal 167 New Ecology 168 The Parrots Oodgeroo 168 Time Is Running Out Ken Saro-Wiwa 169 Ogoni! Ogoni! Jayne Cortez 169 What Do They Care? Ian Hamilton Finlay 170 Estuary Aharon Shabtai 171 The Trees Are Weeping Robert Hass 171 Ezra Pound’s Proposition William Heyen 172 The Global Economy 172 Fast Food 172 Emancipation Proclamation Susan Griffin 173 from Women and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her Dispossessing America Paula Gunn Allen 175 Molly Brant, Iroquois Matron, Speaks Joy Harjo 176 Remember 176 For Alva Benson, and for Those Who Have Learned to Speak 177 What Music Linda Hogan 177 To Light 178 Bees in Transit: Osage County 178 Mountain Lion 179 The Fallen Peter Blue Cloud 181 Sweet Corn 181 We sit balanced Leslie Marmon Silko 182 from Storyteller Joseph Beuys 186 Coyote: I Like America and America Likes Me 8. FORCE OF NATURE Robert Pack 190 Watchers William Stafford 191 In Response to a Question 191 Gaea Arthur Sze 192 from Archipelago 192 from The Leaves of a Dream Are the Leaves of an Onion P.K. Page 193 Planet Earth Denise Levertov 194 It Should Be Visible 194 Urgent Whisper Maurice Riordan 194 The Check-up Michael Symmons Roberts 195 The Pelt Simon Rae 196 One World Down the Drain Benjamin Zephaniah 196 Me green poem John Powell Ward 198 Hurry Up Please, It’s Time Fleur Adcock 198 The Greenhouse Effect Caitríona O’Reilly 199 Bempton Cliffs Peter Redgrove 200 On the Patio Ted Hughes 200 October Dawn Patience Agbabi 200 Indian Summer Oliver Bernard 202 West Harling Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze 203 earth cries Ted Hughes 203 A Wind Flashes the Grass John Burnside 204 Certain Weather Helen Dunmore 207 Ice coming G.F. Dutton 208 Bulletin Philip Gross 208 What This Hand Did Carol Snyder Halberstadt 209 The Road Is Not a Metaphor Robert Hass 210 State of the Planet Seamus Heaney 213 Anything Can Happen 213 Höfn Matthew Hollis 214 The Diomedes Micheal O’Siadhail 215 Sifting Jane Hirshfield 215 Global Warming 9. NATURALl DISASTERS Darby Diane Beattie 216 Memories of Katrina Elizabeth Foos 217 How to lose your hometown in seven days Catharine Savage Brosman 217 Three Modes of Katrina Neil Astley 218 Darwin Cyclone Michael Hamburger 219 A Massacre Allison Funk 221 Living at the Epicenter Kofi Awoonor 223 The Sea Eats the Land at Home Tishani Doshi 223 The Day We Went to the Sea John Burnside 224 Swimming in the Flood George Szirtes 224 Death by Deluge Annemarie Austin 225 Very C.K. Williams 225 Rats Mark Jarman 226 Skin Cancer Maureen Duffy 227 Song of the Stand-pipe Norman Nicholson 228 Windscale Colin Simms 228 West Cumberland 10/11 October 1957 C.K. Williams 228 Tar Mario Petrucci 230 from Heavy Water: a poem for Chernobyl Sarah Maguire 233 May Day, 1986 Matthew Sweeney 234 Zero Hour Mario Petrucci 234 Repossession David Constantine 235 Mappa Mundi Anna Akhmatova 237 ‘Distance collapsed in rubble’ Peter Reading 237 Thucydidean 238 Fragmentary Charles Bukowski 238 Dinosauria, we Lord Byron 239 Darkness David Constantine 241 ‘There used to be forests’ Hans Magnus Enzensberger 241 The End of the Owls Lavinia Greenlaw 242 The Recital of Lost Cities Joy Harjo 243 Perhaps the World Ends Here Primo Levi 243 Almanac 244 Bibliography 246 Acknowledgements 252 Index