MANILA, PHILIPPINES — Harvest Moon: Poems and Stories from the Edge of the Climate Crisis is a new anthology on climate change from the Agam Agenda and Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities.
With over 30 images and over 30 poems, stories, and essays, Harvest Moon brings together writers, photographers, and artists from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and Latin America. The pages of this book span generations, countries, habitats, languages, and multiple realities.
The narratives and photographs in this book span 24 countries and 11 languages, specifically Zapotec, Turkish, Swahili, Spanish, Kankanaey, French, Filipino, English, Chinese, Binisaya, and Bahasa Indonesia. The first Philippine edition of Harvest Moon is published by Milfores Publishing. The anthology editors are Filipina writer and anthropologist Padmapani L. Perez, South African novelist and journalist Rehana Rossouw, Colombian poet and performer Alexandra Walter, and Filipino author Renato Redentor Constantino.
Contributors include internationally-recognized and multi-awarded writers Shirley Campbell Barr (Costa Rica), Marjorie Evasco (Philippines), Luisa A. Igloria (Philippines/USA), Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner (Marshall Islands), Fiston Mwanza Mujila (Democratic Republic of Congo), Leonardo Padura (Cuba), Malebo Sephodi (South Africa), photographer Vinai Dithajohn (Thailand), and renowned essayist Rebecca Solnit.
“The language around the crisis is evolving… The new works in this book counter this with language and stories that make the crisis legible. They invite you to remember how we got here, to pay attention to how it feels to be here, and to imagine how we’re going to emerge from this moment. This book is a gathering of diverse voices. It makes space for the unheard and calls people in and holds them in an embrace.”
— from the Preface to Harvest Moon by Padmapani L. Perez
Writings from Harvest Moon were also featured in artistic collaborations to coincide with the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) international negotiations in November 2021. Poetic lines and provocations from Harvest Moon were featured in light projections by artist Jenny Holzer throughout the city center of Glasgow, Scotland, and at the Tate Modern in London, UK. This was also a partnership with the Climate Vulnerable Forum as part of their arts and culture mobilization initiatives for climate action.
Harvest Moon: available now
“You could make an atlas of trouble out of this book, out of floods and droughts and fires and famines, out of the instability of what we counted on for our stability and our sustenance in body and spirit and hope. One of the questions that arises for me is what will sustain us through this period. We will need stories more than ever.”
— from the Afterword to Harvest Moon by Rebecca Solnit
In keeping with the vision of a beautiful yet accessible book for diverse readers living in the time of climate crisis, the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities is offering this limited Philippine edition at a significantly marked down price of PhP599
The book is currently available via Milflores Publishing (selling on Shopee and Lazada), Mt. Cloud Bookshop (Baguio City), and La Solidaridad Bookstore (Manila)
Order now at http://agamagenda.com/harvest-moon
