Speech Dries Here on the Tongue

Books | Poetry on Environmental Collapse and Mental Health

Mar 25, 2025

I’m thrilled to have three poems included in this wonderful and important anthology on environmental collapse and mental health.

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Speech Dries Here on the Tongue: Poetry on Environmental Collapse and Mental Health
Edited by Hollay Ghadery, Rasiqura Revulva, and Amanda Shankland
The Porcupine's Quill, 2025

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Publisher’s Description

Speech Dries Here on the Tongue is an anthology of poetry by Canadian authors exploring the relationship between environmental collapse and mental health. This threat of environmental collapse has brought with it a sense of impending annihilation and has contributed to the current mental health crisis, made crueller by a global pandemic that highlighted our fragile nature. These are poems by writers who have used their words to both articulate and navigate this crisis, unpacking the complex interplay between mental and environmental health in order to alert, inform, and inspire readers.

Edited by Hollay Ghadery, Rasiqra Revulva, and Amanda Shankland, the collection includes work by Brandon Wint, Jennifer Wenn, Canal Smiley, Amanda Shankland, Concetta Principe, Dominik Parisien, Khashayar Mohammadi,

Kathryn Mockler

, Tara McGowan-Ross,

D.A. Lockhart

, Grace Lau, Fiona Tinwei Lam,

Aaron Kreuter

, gregor Y kennedy, Maryam Gowralli,

Elee Kraljii Gardiner

Sydney Hegele

, Karen Houle, Nina Jane Drystek, AJ Dolman, Conyer Clayton,

Gary Barwin