POETRY: TOM CULL

ANTI-APOCALYPSE

no nuclear winter
no ice age
no superbug
no second coming
no robot revolution
 
a pear tree
buckthorn
plastic bags
a river
turtles
 
 

"Anti-Apocalypse" previously published in Bad Animals (Insominac Press, 2018)
 

Tom Cull teaches creative writing at Western University and was the Poet Laureate for the City of London from 2016-2018. Tom’s first collection of poems, Bad Animals, was published in 2018 by Insomniac Press. His work has appeared in such journals as the Rusty Toque, Long Con, and the New Quarterly; his poem “After Rivers” was included in the anthology Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice (MSU Press, 2019). Tom is the director of Antler River Rally, a grass roots environmental group he co-founded in 2012 with his partner Miriam Love. ARR works to protect and restore Deshkan Ziibi  (Thames River).