100 Poems to Save the Earth (Seren, 2021, edited by Zoe Brigley) begs the question how, exactly, poetry can save the world? Writing from rural and urban perspectives, linking issues of social injustice with the need to protect the environment, contemporary poets from Britain, Ireland, America and beyond suggests that poetry can act as a wake-up call, that it can “find the words to describe how it feels, to sing to what hurts, to reach out … and to see all things as our kin”.
The Friday Poem
A poem every Friday
