{"product_id":"the-rough-poets-1","title":"The Rough Poets","description":"\u003cp\u003eOil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and wilful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles these assumptions, revealing the fear, confusion, betrayal, and indignation hidden beneath tough personas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Rough Poets\u003c\/em\u003e presents poetry by workers in the Canadian oil and gas industry, collecting and closely reading texts published between 1938 and 2019: S.C. Ells’s \u003cem\u003eNorthland Trails\u003c\/em\u003e, Peter Christensen’s \u003cem\u003eRig Talk\u003c\/em\u003e, Dymphny Dronyk’s \u003cem\u003eContrary Infatuations\u003c\/em\u003e, Mathew Henderson’s \u003cem\u003eThe Lease\u003c\/em\u003e, Naden Parkin’s \u003cem\u003eA Relationship with Truth\u003c\/em\u003e, Lesley Battler’s \u003cem\u003eEndangered Hydrocarbons\u003c\/em\u003e, and Lindsay Bird’s \u003cem\u003eBoom Time\u003c\/em\u003e. These writers are uniquely positioned, Melanie Dennis Unrau argues, both as petropoets who write poetry about oil and as theorists of petropoetics with unique knowledge about how to make and unmake worlds that depend on fossil fuels. Their ambivalent, playful, crude, and honest petropoetry shows that oil workers grieve the environmental and social impacts of their work, worry about climate change and the futures of their communities, and desire jobs and ways of life that are good, safe, and just.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow does it feel to be a worker in the oil and gas industry in a climate emergency, facing an energy transition that threatens your way of life? Unrau takes up this question with the respect, care, and imagination necessary to be an environmentalist reader in solidarity with oil workers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Melanie Dennis Unrau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43576103534774,"sku":"9780228022947","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780228022947.jpg?v=1728646585","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-rough-poets-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}