What is the role of poetry in bringing environmental change?
Poetry is not direct propaganda. It impacts the consciousness of our understanding of ourselves as well as our relationship with other people, with nature and with the universe at large.
It tells us subtly and indirectly that perhaps we need to change our attitude to nature, we need to get over this consumerist madness.
It also tells us that we need to form another idea of development; of our own consciousness, of love, of peace, of a world that is greener and better than one that the predecessors left for us. I have never claimed that poetry alone can change the world, but it can contribute to that change by creating and promoting that kind of consciousness. Ultimately, only when activists and writers, playwrights, filmmakers, painters, sculptors, artists of all kinds, come together, can the change really take place.
Greening the Earth
Editors: K Satchidanandan Nishi Chawla
Publisher: Penguin Random House
MRP: ₹599
Pages: 378
The anthology, Greening the Earth, is focused on nature poetry, which you believe has not always been taken seriously in the literary circle. Has that perception changed?
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