The Last Lighthouse in Rising Seas by Helen Moore tayi tibble now / listen: / hang

now / listen: / hang on / keep your silence / until the words / ripen / in you

‘Unwritten offers an answer to the Walcottian question ‘Where are your monuments

and propulsive

at the same time as doing away with the divisions and distinctions between the countries of Africa

William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman

The Last Lighthouse in Rising Seas by Helen Moore tayi tibble now / listen: / hangHow can we communicate the unspeakable, illuminate the shadow realms of our society and intersecting social ecological crises, whilst negotiating our own loves, losses, responsibilities? In ecofeminist poems written over a decade, the personal is situated within the larger social geopolitical structures that circumscribe our lives, with themes of resistance, regeneration and co creation with non human nature offering a beacon for these turbulent