Nature Matters ed. by Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Wolf Nine Arches Cope has proven that a

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not just with wonder

and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety

to engage with a tangle of vast systems — of air

Nature Matters ed. by Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Wolf Nine Arches Cope has proven that aThe rise of nature writing as a cultural phenomenon is nothing new. Yet it has stirred questions relating to whose voices are privileged and heard in a space predominantly occupied by Western European traditions and writers. In Nature Matters, poets Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf seek to redress this imbalance. Their genre defining anthology considers nature poetry from its historical roots to more recent flourishings, presenting how Black and