I'll Get Right On It
Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis
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The deepening climate crisis is making all kinds of work harder, more dangerous and more unpredictable -- or if it hasn't yet, it will soon enough. And all kinds of workers have something to say about it. I'll Get Right On It is a poetry anthology about making a living and carrying on despite smoky air, fires, climate grief, species loss and increased precarity. Contributors include Indigenous, migrant, racialized, low-income, queer, disabled and unpaid labourers who do all kinds of work, including climate-related work, extractive work, migrant work, gig work, care and service work and traditional work.
This anthology builds on the rich traditions of working-class literature, work poetry and social poetics. These poems are both a way to pay attention to the politics of everyday life and a workshop for building solidarity among working people already surviving and adapting to a climate emergency. They surface the commonplace, powerful feelings of cynicism, helplessness, empathy, responsibility, resilience and hope that are needed in the struggle for a liveable future. Connecting the dots between labour and environment, this anthology invites us to think and feel through the many ways climate change transforms our working lives.
About this Author
The Land and Labour Poetry Collective is a collaborative editorial group based in the prairie and western provinces of the lands now known as Canada. The collective includes award-winning poets and nonfiction writers who work or have worked in farming, geology, project management, oil and gas, research, teaching, editing, and manual labour. Its members are Moni Brar, Jenna Butler, Samantha F. Jones, Jamie Paris, Kelly Shepherd, and Melanie Dennis Unrau.
Anjali Appadurai is a climate activist and campaigner, her work ranging from community organizing to high-level national campaigning to electoral politics. She is the director of Campaigns with the Climate Emergency Unit and the Padma Centre for Climate Justice.
Reviews
A moving, richly diverse collection that connects the dots between the climate crisis and our labour conditions. This collection doesn't shy away from reflecting the twin realities of dread and sorrow that come with working in a perpetual state of crisis. But it also moves us to process this collective climate grief through strengthening our bonds of solidarity. A powerful read for all of us trying to live, work, and resist during the polycrisis!
An essential contribution to climate change literature, this book advances climate justice with voices not typically brought to the table. The urgency articulated in these itinerant voices is impossible to unhear, and, I hope, impossible to ignore.
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