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Watch Your Head

Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis

Kathryn Mockler editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Coach House Books

Published:24th Dec '20

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Co-op available Print and digital galleys available Online/social media campaign eBook available at same time as print publication eBook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed Publisher and author will be promoting both eBook and print through social media Promotion through author’s website: watchyourhead.ca

A warning, a movement, a collection borne of protest. In Watch Your Head, poems, stories, essays, and artwork sound the alarm on the present and future consequences of the climate emergency. Ice caps are melting, wildfires are raging, and species extinction is accelerating. Dire predictions about the climate emergency from scientists, Indigenous land and water defenders, and striking school children have mostly been ignored by the very institutions – government, education, industry, and media – with the power to do something about it. Writers and artists confront colonization, racism, and the social inequalities that are endemic to the climate crisis. Here the imagination amplifies and humanizes the science. These works are impassioned, desperate, hopeful, healing, transformative, and radical. This is a call to climate-justice action. Edited by Madhur Anand, Stephen Collis, Jennifer Dorner, Catherine Graham, Elena Johnson, Canisia Lubrin, Kim Mannix, Kathryn Mockler, June Pak, Sina Queyras, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Rasiqra Revulva, Yusuf Saadi, Sanchari Sur, and Jacqueline Valencia Proceeds will be donated to RAVEN and Climate Justice Toronto.

This makes Watch Your Head bigger than the sum of its parts. By assembling so many voices, the book shows what an ethic of climate justice needs to look like: a place where multiple perspectives are bound together and share some common needs, but raise distinct concerns that will not be reduced to a singular vision. —Canadian Literature

ISBN: 9781552454121

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

192 pages