Inga Ravna Eira

This is not the earth

This is not the earth is a collection of poems with climate-change
as its theme. What makes the poems in this collection unique is
the author’s intimacy with nature, and the powerful emotions that
permeate her writing. In these poems, present day human activity
and its effect on the natural world are set against the backdrop of
the ruling family of Gods of the old Saami religion – figures who
protected the earth, its people and life itself. The poems present
the Goddess Uksáhká’s desperate plea to the children of the sun
– today’s inhabitants of the earth, who are no longer listening to
her.