The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics offers comprehensive coverage of the vital and growing movement of ecopoetics. This volume begins with a general introduction to the field, followed by six sections:

Perspectives

broad overviews engaging fields such as biosemiosis, kinship praxis, and philosophical approaches

Experiments

formal innovations developed by poets in response to planetary crises

Earth and Water

explorations of poetic entanglement with planetary chemical and biological systems

Waste/Toxicity/Precarity

poetics addressing the effects of pollution and climate change

Environmental Justice and Activism

examinations of poetry as an engine of political and cultural change

Region and Place

an international array of traditional and contemporary geographically focused responses to ecosystems and environmental conditions; and

Subjectivities/Affects/Sexualities

investigations of gender, ethnicity, and race as they intersect with ecological concerns

Each section includes an overview and summary addressing the specific essays in the section. These previously unpublished essays represent a wide variety of nationalities, backgrounds, perspectives, and critical approaches exploring the interdisciplinary field of ecopoetics. Contributions from leading scholars working across the globe make The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics a landmark textbook and reference for a variety of researchers and students.