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A warning, a movement, a collection borne of protest.
In Watch Your Head, poems, stories, essays, and artwork sound the alarm on the present and future consequences of the climate emergency. Ice caps are melting, wildfires are raging, and species extinction is accelerating. Dire predictions about the climate emergency from scientists, Indigenous land and water defenders, and striking school children have mostly been ignored by the very institutions – government, education, industry, and media – with the power to do something about it. Writers and artists confront colonization, racism, and the social inequalities that are endemic to the climate crisis. Here the imagination amplifies and humanizes the science. These works are impassioned, desperate, hopeful, healing, transformative, and radical. This is a call to climate-justice action.
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Mona'a Malik’s stories have appeared in The Fiddlehead, Joyland, Event, The Puritan, and Ricepaper, among other venues. She received an Arts and Letters NL award for poetry, and placed first in Carve Magazine’s 2020 Prose & Poetry Contest. Her play Sania The Destroyer was produced for Theatre New Brunswick's 50th anniversary season (2018-2019), and was a finalist for the QWF Playwriting Prize. She lives in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal on the unceded land of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation.
ENDGAME I’ll rent a basement without Wi-Fi or windows where my typewriter’s keys evoke the nights our rain was still gentle. And we’ll have a black cat named Samuel Bucket. One night, you scream Fuck it and reconnect the Ethernet to scour the hookup-lands in which I found you. In response I recount yesterday’s rumours (kids saying Lima was prey to another monster storm). The death toll, charities, they’re prolly making rounds now on CBC, CNN, BBC— and god knows the death or missing tolls tonight in some other coastal town. Instead, unplug, ignore the screams above our bedroom without windows. Board my craft Calypso: let’s float on this flooded earth where Odysseus abandoned you. Isn’t that when history began, so many years ago? Yusuf Saadi’s first collection is Pluviophile (Nightwood Editions April, 2020). He previously won the 2016 Vallum Chapbook Award and the The Malahat Review‘s 2016 Far Horizons Award for Poetry. At other times, his writing has appeared in magazines/anthologies including Best Canadian Poetry 2019, The Malahat Review, Vallum, Brick, Canadian Notes & Queries, Best Canadian Poetry 2018, and Arc Poetry Magazine. He currently lives in Montreal.
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AboutWatch Your Head is an online journal of creative works devoted to the climate crisis and climate justice.
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