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The Animals are Leaving Us By Martin Rowe

Publisher: Lantern Publishing and Media

LANTERN INFORMATION

A poetic reflection and examination of the omnipresence and yet the vanishing of animals within and from an environment entirely defined by the whims and appetites of human beings.

For four years, from January 2017 to January 2021, writer and publisher Martin Rowe documented the state of the United States and the world—using the verse form of ottava rima. In June 2019, he dedicated thirty of those verses to two extraordinarily compelling and distressing photographs of animals in extremis taken by Canadian photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur. Now expanded to include more verses and more of McArthur’s stunning images, The Animals Are Leaving Us forms a testament to the particular moments in the lives and deaths of individual creatures, and a requiem for the many billions of animals who are subject to the cruel whims of our species, and who are vanishing from the wild places of the Earth.

REVIEWS

Kudos to Jo-Anne McArthur for having the courage to document human inhumanity from a pig being clubbed to death in a Thai slaughterhouse,to a sow in a gestation crate looking at a dead piglet near her crate and two cows huddled together on their way to a slaughterhouse. Kudos, too, to Martin Rowe for describing it all in verse that has the power and fire of William Blake's poetry. You may be inclined to look away. Don't. This is one of those rare books that leave you a different (and better) person after you read it.
~ Peter Marsh, Amazon review

Stunned! This is a book I wished would not have needed to have been written, and a book that is essential at this time. I could not wait to get a copy of the hardback version, so bought the Kindle version a couple of days ago. I was stunned by this stunning book. A marvelous marriage of poetry and photography examining the abuse and exploitation of non-human animals. It is not an easy read but a very worthwhile one. I would highly recommend it.
~ Gordon Meade, Amazon review

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Martin is a writer, ghostwriter, and the executive director of the Culture & Animals Foundation (CAF), which funds scholars and artists who promote animal rights, and also a senior fellow at Brighter Green, an “action” tank that investigates the role of industrial animal agriculture on food systems, biodiversity, environmental pollution, the climate crisis, public health, and workers rights. At Brighter Green I coordinate the Vegan America Project.

Prior to my position at CAF, I worked as an editor and publisher for 25 years. In 1994, he co-founded the monthly magazine Satya, and was its editor for five and a half years. Five years later, he co-founded Lantern Books, a publisher of titles on vegetarianism, environmentalism, animal advocacy, religion, natural healing, and social justice. In 2020, he co-founded Lantern Publishing & Media, a non-profit organization dedicated to carrying on Lantern’s mission.

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