Our Human Shores

Josh Fomon author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Black Ocean

Publishing:3rd Jul '25

£12.99

This title is due to be published on 3rd July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Our Human Shores cover

Our Human Shores explores living in the Anthropocene, the ecological disasters life faces, and the barriers and inequality society faces in trying to create a better and livable world.

Our Human Shores is an exploration into how language is rooted within the Anthropocene — and how poetry shapes meaning-making, faith in people and institutions, and death through lyricism, experiment, and ecopoetics. Using a phrase from John Keats’ “Bright Star” sonnet, Our Human Shores explores a tautology of thresholds and shores to remake our world, our experience of nature, and our relationship with climate, creation, and humankind’s existential place in a world staring down the apocalypse.

Our Human Shores is a speculative work that will guide humanity through extinct

“In Our Human Shores, Josh Fomon takes on the difficult situation of our country and world in a voice that vibrates between prophetic and private, apocalyptic and lyrical. If it's Whitmanesque it's the Whitman of the radical Latin American poets. Fomon's poems mourn, hope, and struggle. His language is sensuous, glistering. When I read it, I can feel the words in my mouth.”—Johannes Gorannson, author of The New Quarantine


ISBN: 9781965154014

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Weight: unknown

96 pages