A new movement of eco poets from black and brown communities in the UK is challenging the canon of nature poetry against the backdrop of the climate and biodiversity crisis.Mona Arshi, who co-edited the first UK collection of eco poetry from African, Asian and Caribbean diaspora voices, was inspired to put the anthology together after asking in a social media post that went viral: “Where are all our black and Asian nature writers?”She said: “It was not that people were not writing in those spaces but they hadn’t been gathered, they hadn’t been published, or in some cases their poetry has not been framed as nature poetry. So the process was like lifting a veil. It was like a visibility project.”The anthology, Nature Matters, has been taken up in the past year in universities and some schools and has boosted interest in nature poetry from perspectives very different to white, western and mainstream culture.The new movement of nature poetry has as a powerful theme the destruction of nature, which is happening at rates unprecedented in human history as a result of global heating, intensive agricultural practices, pollution and the exploitation of natural resources.The movement unpicks and challenges the nature of the pastoral, who gets access to it and who has had ownership of the genre of nature poetry.As the UK-based Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant writes in his offering for the anthology: