Poetry review – OAK: Edmund Prestwich is captivated by an imaginative poem-biography of an oak tree by Katharine Towers
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Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial. By Peter Stott. Review by Barbara Lewis.
A year before the Kyoto Protocol committed the developed world to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, Britain’s Education Act of 1996 incorporated the Thatcher government’s 1986 Education Act that was designed to deal with a perceived issue of left-wing teachers indoctrinating school pupils. Two decades on, mathematician Peter Stott found himself defending climate science against its deniers, who used Thatcher’s legal legacy to take to the High Court their objections to Al Gore’s climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth being streamed in schools.
REBEL TALK – Bill Jenkinson surveys a collection of poems on the climate emergency compiled and edited by Rip Bulkeley
Poetry review – 100 POEMS TO SAVE THE EARTH: Alwyn Marriage reviews a new anthology edited by Zoë Brigley & Kristian Evans
Poetry review – THE GOD OF LOST WAYS: Neil Leadbeater admires Jane Lovell’s eye for detail as revealed in her latest collection
Poetry Review – VIVARIUM: the hidden violence of passing time, climate-change, history and the sense of self – Eret Talviste finds all this in Maarja Pärtna’s poetry
Poetry Review – This Tilting Earth: Adele Ward reviews Jane Lovell’s new pamphlet which is full of concern for our planet
Poetry review – Poems for the Planet: Maria McCarthy looks at a powerful multi-author pamphlet designed to raise awareness of ecological issues
One million plastic bottles are bought every minute and most of them are not recycled. It’s a stark reality Claire Davenport and Grioghair McCord were moved to explore after a trip to a Shetland beach littered with plastic bottles.
Richie McCaffery admires a remarkable hybrid of journal and autobiography by M R Peacocke
Stuart Henson detects a note of anger in Jane Routh’s particular and personal responses to place and nature
The Great Melt By Alister Doyle Published by Flint Books My only churlish quibble with Alister Doyle’s highly readable distillation of years of meticulous research into climate change and sea level rise is that it might make the reader desperate for the kind of far-flung adventures we can no longer undertake lightly.
By Barbara Lewis • books, ecology, society, year 2021 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, books, ecology, society