Russell McDougall, Emeritus Professor, University of New England (Australia), has published widely on African, Australian and Caribbean Literatures in English. His most recent book is: Letters from Khartoum. D.R. Ewen. Teaching English Literature, Sudan, 1951-1965 (2021). John Charles Ryan is Adjunct Associate Professor, Southern Cross University, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Notre Dame University (Australia). His most recent book is Introduction to the Environmental Humanities (2021).Pauline Reynolds recently graduated PhD with the Chancellor’s Doctoral Research Medal, University of New England (Australia). She has published on Pacific history and Indigenous knowledges in the Journal of the Polynesian Society and the Journal of Pacific History.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors and EditorsDear Matafele Peinam,  Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner1 Introduction Climate Change as Critical Reading PracticeRussell McDougall, John C. Ryan and Pauline Reynolds2 “The Imagining of Possibilities” Writers as ActivistsGeoffrey V. Davis3 River Writing Culture, Law and PoeticsChris Prentice4 Which Island, What Home? Plantation Ecologies and Climate Change in Australia and NauruPaul Sharrad5 Island Life and Wild Time Crossing into Country in Tim Winton’s Island HomeStephen Harris6 Islands Within Islands Climate Change and the Deep Time Narratives of the Southern BeechJohn C. Ryan7 Refashioning Futures with Sargassum A Caribbean Poetics of HopeKasia Mika and Sally Stainier8 “Kāne and Kanaloa Are Coming” Contemporary Hawaiian Poetry and Climate ChangeCraig Santos Perez9 Monsoonal Memories and “the Reliable Water” Reading Climate Change in Selected Malaysian LiteratureAgnes S. K. Yeow10 Aswan High Dam and Haggag Oddoul’s Stories from Old Nubia Redefining the Line between Immediate Catastrophe and Slow ViolenceAmany Dahab11 Caring for the Future Climate Change, Kinship and Inuit KnowledgeRenée Hulan12 Fictional Representations of Antarctic Tourism and Climate Change To the Ends of the WorldHanne E.F. Nielsen13 Ice Islands of the Anthropocene The Cultural Meanings of Antarctic BergsElizabeth LeaneIndex