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