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We amend our language
to describe our altered landscape.
We discard tagneghneg,
Yupik for the darkest kind of ice
and replace with solastalgia,
like nostalgia,
a sadness for something lost,
joining the latin solacium for solace
with the Greek, algos, for pain.
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Barney Harper, a London based poet and essayist, was one of the participants in Writing for a Substantially Altered World, an online climate literature workshop organised by the magazine It's Freezing in LA! and maat on the theme of Solastalgia. |
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