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
