Harvest Moon: Poems and Stories from the Edge of the Climate Crisis

“You could make an atlas of trouble out of this book, out of floods and droughts and fires and famines, out of the instability of what we counted on for our stability and our sustenance in body and spirit and hope. One of the questions that arises for me is what will sustain us through this period. We will need stories more than ever.”
—from the Afterword by Rebecca Solnit

Harvest Moon is an anthology of loves and lives, of stories that thrive where borders and edges meet and where fates merge and collide like bodies of water seeking oceans and tides encountering clouds and landfall, habitats and hives.

The anthology is composed of more than 30 images and over 30 poems, stories, and essays about the climate crisis from writers, photographers, and artists in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and Latin America. The narratives and photographs in this book span 24 countries and 11 languages. Contributors include Shirley Campbell Barr, Vinai Dithajohn, Marjorie Evasco, Luisa A. Igloria, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Leonardo Padura, and Malebo Sephodi.

Regional Editors

Rehana Rossouw, Regional Lead for Africa. A journalist for 30 years; her beat included the late Nelson Mandela. Her first novel, What Will People Say?, was shortlisted for the Etisalat Prize and garnered the 2017 Book Prize from the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences.

Alexandra Walter, Regional Lead for Latin America. A professional translator, editor, and multi-awarded documentary filmmaker. She founded and has coordinated for the last 25 years the Colombian poetry group La Pacha Mama, whose slogan is “Drop the gun, raise a poem”.

Padmapani L. Perez, Regional Lead for Asia and the Pacific. An anthropologist with a doctorate from Leiden University, a widely-published poet, feature writer, and contributor to Agam: Filipino Narratives. She is the author of Green Entanglements: Nature-Conservation and Indigenous Peoples Rights in Indonesia and the Philippines. Padma is also the Project Lead for Agam International.

Renato Redentor Constantino, Co-editor, is the Executive Director of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC). He has worked for close to three decades with international climate, development and environment campaigning organizations spanning South, Southeast, East, and Central Asia. He is the author of The Poverty of Memory: Essays on History and Empire.

Contributors

Diverse and multi-awarded contributors. The book gathers together more than 50 award-winning authors, promising writers, and photographers from 24 countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America. Our contributors include: