Emergency Dream grows out of the entangled emergencies of our times: social, political and personal. It explores the inextricability of Climate Justice and Disability Justice, drawing on close observation of the natural world and the human world from the position of a disabled bodymind within it.
Throughout, states of emergency and states of dream overlap. Visions of the future and past collide in waking and sleeping dreams, travelling landscapes threatened by floods, wildfires and the pandemic to impossible dreamscapes and soundscapes. Disabled joy and disabled rage are both tools for survival learnt from human and non-human communities.
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Urgent new poetry exploring the inextricability of Climate Justice and Disability Justice from an award-winning writer
Polly Atkin is a poet and non-fiction writer, whose work focuses on nature, place and disability. Her two poetry collections are Basic Nest Architecture (Seren Books, 2017) and Much With Body (Seren Books, 2021). Her non-fiction books include Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth (Saraband, 2021), Some Of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better (Sceptre, 2023) (Lakeland Book of the Year 2024, longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2024) and The Company of Owls (Elliott and Thompson, 2024) (longlisted for Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2025). Her poetry and prose appears in various anthologies and academic editions.
