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The Uncollected Animals

Poems for Our Nonhuman Kin

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Description

Leading poet and activist John Kinsella brings together a
major international collection of contemporary and historical poetry that speaks
to the rights and welfare of animals.

The Uncollected Animals is a unique anthology of poetry
based around all non-human animal life, with the welfare and rights of animals
at the forefront. The anthology includes over forty commissioned poems, and
other poems provided by poets specifically for the anthology. These are set
against an historical context of animal-referencing poems that range in time
from ancient Greece to the 21st century. Kinsella's introduction offers
insights into the eternal relationship of poetry to animals, and the creative
arrangement of the poems yields startling contrasts and alliances that will
draw readers into a powerful relationship with the work.

The book includes 160 poems representing some sixteen
countries and many different cultures. Together, this collective utterance
respects and conserves a great variety of perspectives. Writing in a full range
of styles, the diverse voices found inside include poets from Aristophanes,
Blake, Coleridge, Du Fu, Melville, and Wordsworth to Anne Carson, CA Conrad,
Kimiko Hahn, Paul Laurence Dunbar, D.H. Lawrence, Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou, Rita
Dove, and Marianne Moore, to important young voices, to performer/lyricists
such as Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. At all times, animals, their rights, and
their welfare are at the fore, be they invertebrates, bird, mammal, reptile,
amphibian, or fish.

In a time of human-induced mass extinctions and rapid
human-induced climate change, this subject could not be more vital and
necessary for all of us to consider, embrace, and act on with empathy.

Product Details

PublisherTurtle Point Press
Publish DateMay 20, 2025
Pages352
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781885983602
DimensionsN/A
BISAC Categories: Poetry, Poetry

About the Author

John Kinsella's most recent volumes of poetry include Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems 1980-2015 (Picador, 2016), Firebreaks (W.W. Norton, 2016), and Insomnia (W.W. Norton, 2020). His recent poetry book with Kwame Dawes is UnHistory (Peepal
Tree, 2022). The first two volumes of his collected poems have appeared in Australia (2022 and 2023) with the third appearing in 2025. In 2025 W.W. Norton will publish a new selected poems with an introduction by Marjorie Perloff, and a new collection, Aporia, will appear from Turtle Point Press. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, an Affiliated Scholar with Kenyon College, and Emeritus Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University, Western Australia.

Reviews

PRAISE FOR THE UNCOLLECTED ANIMALS

"Monumental!" ―Kwame Dawes, Poet Laureate of Jamaica and author of Sturge Town

"I'm so excited about this extraordinary anthology. I started reading the collection and COULD NOT STOP." ―CAConrad, author of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return


PRAISE FOR JOHN KINSELLA

"A work of eco-activism...Kinsella worries at―and
about―the relationship between art and an endangered world...Kinsella is a
celebrator of the natural world, a poet of wide horizons."―Katie Kellaway, The Guardian

"One of Australia's most vivid, energetic, and stormy poets,
a writer who turns to the natural world with a fierce light." ―Edward Hirsch

"Kinsella maps the living world onto a Möbius strip of
poetry on which all things are contiguous and contingent. Nothing escapes his
loving, ethical watching." ―Bin Ramke, author of Missing the Moon

"This true firebrand's care for the natural world...reaches
from his tender shepherding of the mice invading his cupboards to his concern
for species yet unknown." ―Susan Stewart, author of The Poet's Freedom

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