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Beautifully curated by Carol Ann Duffy, the poems in \u003ci\u003eEarth Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e span widely across time, but in their moments of joy, empathy or difference, even the earliest poems reveal a concern for the welfare of our planet. Duffy brings these early eco-poems into conversation with contemporary voices writing into the environmental crisis, and through this dialogue sounds a clarion call to cherish and defend the planet while we can. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom John Clare to Lucille Clifton to Kathleen Jamie, the poets collected in \u003ci\u003eEarth Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e speak at times as stewards and ambassadors of the earth, at others in anger at those who would exploit nature, or to question their own part in its decline. 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