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Poets from across the globe gather to tell a unique collective tale of migration of humans and our natural kin. Join us on this mysterious alchemical journey, a path which is simultaneously a destination; a wandering that is also a home. Lose yourself in moments and movements as humans, birds, animals, rivers, and stones speak. These are literal and physical events, and also messages from the imagination, mind and spirit. New myths are made, old myths recalled. Find hope in shifts and transformations; open your heart as the world is uprooted.

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"This anthology considers migration in its most expanded sense. The work within is heartfelt, impassioned, meditative, even mystical - and alert to the sensorium of the living world, to which migration is so central, from which we humans are not exempt. -Meryl Pugh, author of Feral Borough (2022, Penned in the Margins) and Natural Phenomena (2018, Penned in the Margins). ""The quest is to understand myself not as a single / thing [...] but rather a constellation"" Alyson Hallett writes in one of the many extraordinary poems in this anthology, which carries us from the fractures deep below the North Atlantic to the fractures in human lives; from menopause to puffins; from Brexit to Queen Anne's Lace; from the tourist who can only see flowers to the migrant boats sinking off the same shore. These are poems that challenge us to move beyond our solitary selves into the teeming, challenging, and stunning world of which we are a part. Robin Lily Goldberg writes of ""breathing our selves / back into our cells"" and this collection helped me do that. -Alexandra Teague, Professor of English (Creative Writing), Acting Chair of English, Co-Director of Creative Writing, Co-Director of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, University of Idaho The pages of Migration and Home are haunted by tautly held oppositions: land and ocean; movement and stillness; continuity and dislocation; belonging and being a stranger. Through journeys in time and space we transform ourselves and the world around us. Experience becomes memory. The familiar becomes unfamiliar which in time becomes home, while, woven through everything, the most universal migration of all, from birth to life to death. As Victoria Field tells us ""every thing is an island."" And yet in these pages we find there is still power in poetry to make some sense of our disconnections. -Marcus James, editor and publisher, Anima Poetry Press"

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Dr. Simon Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education at Canterbury Christ Church University (UK), and a member of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies at Cambridge (UK). He has a special interest in landscape, co-creation, love of learning, the theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the true nature of sustainability. My fascination with biodiversity began in LA (California) where I grew up. I traded body surfing for desert and mountain explorations, and melded that pursuit into serious science. But, I also soon realized that if we did not do more than just science we'd not have species and important biological interactions from which to enhance our understanding of a diverse and brilliant planet. I've concentrated on animals larger than a bread box - both iconic endangered species and those lesser known. Among these have been black rhinos and wild yaks, Patagonia's huemul, and saiga in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. Although I've targeted extreme spots - described in my Geographical pursuits - including the edges of the planet, I ask questions about climate and environmental change, migration and connectivity, and, most recently, how our burgeoning passion for play and our travel footprints affect species at a local scale. In my soul, I know the important issue is how to engage science at levels that not only inform but improve visibility and result in change. Lis McLoughlin, PhD is founder and director of NatureCulture LLC, and the Writing the Land project. She publishes the Writing the Land anthologies and other books, and produces events such as the online Authors and Artists Festival. nature-culture.net writingtheland.org

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