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By Rasheena Fountain. Climate Conscious Collabs Press, 2026.

Rasheena Fountain’s sweeping memoir centers on stories of Black migration, exploration, and relationships to nature and place. Through a series of letters, poems, and essays that take blues-inspired leaps across time, she reflects on the movements of her ancestors and on her own journeys: from Chicago to Seattle, from city life to nature conservation, and from silence into songwriting. In Starfish Blues, Fountain seeks something “much bigger than representation,” a recouping of ancestral visions of freedom ...

By Stacy Alaimo. University of Minnesota Press, 2025.

In an era of accelerating extinctions, what does it mean to discover thousands of new species in the deep sea? As we see the catastrophic effects of the Anthropocene proliferate, advanced technologies also grant us greater access to the furthest reaches of the world’s oceans, facilitating the discovery of countless new species. Sorting through the implications of this strange paradox, Stacy Alaimo explores the influence this newfound intimacy with the deep sea might have on our ...

By Serena Ferrando. University of Toronto Press, 2026.

Channeling Nature: Plants, Animals, and Water in Italian Poetry offers a new understanding of 20th-century Italian literature by showing how poetry serves as a vital medium for ecological thought. Ferrando examines the work of poets such as Andrea Zanzotto, Daria Menicanti, and Milo De Angelis, to reveal how verse gives voice to the more-than-human world—plants, animals, waterscapes—while modeling forms of multispecies cohabitation, resistance, and care. Moving beyond traditional symbolic readings, this book emphasizes how poetic language ...

Edited by Liz Carlisle and Aubrey Streit Krug. Island Press/Princeton University Press, 2026.

Just four annual crops—corn, wheat, rice, and soybeans—account for 75% of the calories consumed by people. We are missing out on a tremendous bounty of perennial foods—foods that can not only enrich our diets but help heal the land and combat climate change. By investing energy in robust root systems rather than just annual growth, perennial food plants endure year after year, pointing the way to a more resilient future. In ...

By Sharon White. Betty Books, WTAW Press, 2025.

Set in 1979 Norway during a time of environmental resistance and cultural awakening, If the Owl Calls is a gripping novel steeped in atmosphere, mystery, and history. When Oslo police detective Hans Sorensen is sent north to investigate sabotage at the Alta Dam, a body is discovered—entangling him in a web of Sami protests, political tensions, and long-buried truths. As he confronts his own heritage and grief over the loss of his wife, Hans is drawn ...

By Elizabeth Jacobson. Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2025.

As the title intimates, There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral, a variety of distinct voices sing in this new poetry collection, often expressing the complicated, rapidly fluctuating truths of our heating planet, family function and dysfunction, and the surprising reflections that emerge from a continuous practice of paying attention to the self, society and the greater wild world. These poems work to dispel delusion, empowering the reader to fully witness ...

By Boria Sax. Reaktion Books, 2025.

From ancient fables to modern science, insects and their metamorphoses have long inspired human understanding of life’s transitions. This original and engaging book traces how these transformations have shaped rituals around birth, marriage, and death, while also provoking deep questions about identity. Through stories that connect Zhuang Zhou’s butterfly dream to figures like Kafka, Merian, and Dürer, it explores the strange, beautiful, and sometimes unsettling ways cultures have understood insects—as miracles, messengers, or monsters. Blending humor, history, and ...

By Rob Carney. Wakefield Press, 2025.

There is a centuries-old Japanese form of writing called the haibun: meditative narratives ending with a haiku that acts as a summary or extension of the ideas and moods in the prose. In Accidental Gardens: New & Revised, Rob Carney both honors this form and gives it an update for the 21st century. These 48 essays—including 16 collected for the first time in this new edition—are all short and end, haibun-style, with poems or encapsulating images. These essays ...

Edited by Nancy Lord, Marybeth Holleman, & Sharlene Grace Moler. Mountaineers Books, 2026.

Alaska Literary Field Guide is a vibrant and immersive celebration of Alaska’s wild beauty, blending science, storytelling, and stunning artwork. This unique anthology brings together a diverse range of the state’s most respected contemporary poets and writers alongside original, full-color artwork from 19 Alaskan visual artists. More than 90 species and natural elements—from grizzly bears and glaciers to lichens, loons, and the aurora borealis—are brought to life through poetic reflections, vivid ...

By Yelizaveta P. Renfro. University of Georgia Press, 2026.

The essays that make up The Season of Birds and Stones grapple with questions of what wilderness means and how we can interact with and learn from other species. Set in some of our most stunning public lands, including Denali National Park and Preserve, Great Basin National Park, Isle Royale National Park, and Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Renfro’s essays examine her encounters with bears, arctic ground squirrels, loons, red-winged blackbirds, moose, and wolves, as ...