The Routledge Introduction to Ecopoetics in the Canadian Milieu

The Routledge Introduction to Ecopoetics in the Canadian Milieu offers an extensive overview of literature and the environment through Canadian poetry. Providing a brief history of ecopoetics since its origins in British Romanticism and American Transcendentalism, along with key terms from ecocriticism, this unconventional textbook provides students with insight into critical issues of the environment, including widespread pollution, global warming, the degradation of ecosystems, illness, and mass extinction. The volume includes contemporary poets from a wide range of ethnicities and nationalities in Canada, reflecting upon Indigenous poetics, collaborative ecopoetics, reclamation ecopoetics, queer ecopoetics, and other current topics. Each chapter includes a combination of close readings and selective research on poetry, balancing the depth and breadth of ecopoetics in Canada to encourage a variety of discussions in the classroom. This book will be an essential edition in helping students and scholars navigate the fields of Canadian poetry and ecopoetics, and the challenges they pose to our ways of thinking about nature, each other, and other animals.