Feminist Book Club: April 2026
For April’s 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚, we’re reading Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority, edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf and Mona Arshi.
Named Best Recent Poetry by The Guardian, this collection features voices from the African, Asian and Caribbean diaspora coming together to celebrate nature in all its forms.
From the publisher:
There has been a welcome surge of nature writing in recent years. Yet this has raised questions as to whose voices are privileged and heard in a space predominantly occupied by Western European traditions and authors. In Nature Matters, poets Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf seek to redress this imbalance.
Their genre-enriching anthology presents brand-new commissions alongside formative works from the past fifty years that invite us to reconsider nature poetry from global-majority perspectives. Image-rich and formally diverse, the poems explore fundamental and ecological themes including climate crisis and the Anthropocene; urban nature, solitude and alienation; protest and radical empathy; Indigenous wisdom and alternative histories.
🗓 Wednesday, April 22
🕕 6pm
📍Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road.
“An exquisitely profound and groundbreaking testament to our natural world by many of the most powerful poetic voices of our times.” –Bernardine Evaristo
Get your copy of Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority in hardcopy, ebook, or audiobook format and join the discussion!
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