Charlotte Buckley’s debut collection explores climate breakdown through the lens of female experience. Reconciling the trauma of childhood sexual assault with the threat of ecological disaster, these poems draw connections between gender-based oppression and the destruction of the living world. Confronting loss, both personal and collective, these are poems filled with grief and praise, vulnerability and urgency, as well as hope for the future. In a time of accelerating crises, Raising Water argues for poetry not as a solution, but as a practice: a means of witness, resistance and care.
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