About

“an assured, mature debut, real poems that renew your faith in the lyric, in the embrace of the human and the natural.” — Boey Kim Cheng, author of Somewhere-bound, Another Place and Days of No Name

“Red Earth is a miracle mirror house of contrasts… a book as idiomatic and fluid as a sea wave. Touching on the themes of nature, she has created work that possesses some of the most sophisticated ecological poetics I have ever read.” — Robert Lashley, author of Green River Valley

Red Earth is an ecofeminist poetry collection offering meditations on place and the making of home amid the ever-increasing racket of society. It embodies a new planetary politics of making kin with plants, animals, the elements, and landscapes to find hope and healing in a time of state-sanctioned violence against the land and by proxy, its peoples. Tracing its poetic lineage to ecofeminist forebearers like Mary Oliver, Eavan Boland, Grace Nichols, Joy Harjo and Kathy Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner, Red Earth is an ecofeminist act of solidarity with marginalized others and an artifact of social and environmental activism.

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Author

Esther Vincent Xueming is the editor-in-chief and founder of The Tiger Moth Review, an independent eco journal of art and literature based in Singapore. She is co-editor of two poetry anthologies, Poetry Moves (Ethos Books, 2020) and Little Things (Ethos Books, 2013), and Making Kin, an ecofeminist anthology of personal essays by women writers in Singapore (Ethos Books). A literature educator by profession, she is passionate about the relationships between art, literature and the environment. Follow her on Twitter @EstherVincentXM.