“not safe any / where anymore”: Biopolitical Poetics and Irish Migration Poetry

While Irish literary culture has long been preoccupied with migration, the urgency of late-Anthropocene concerns with climate collapse and mass displacement has overtaken traditional concepts of migration in the works of some emerging poets. As poems by Ailbhe Darcy and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe suggest, the intersection of vulnerable subjectivities and climate anxieties offers a poetic space to interrogate the degradation of humanitarian and ecological values. Using the formal innovation of the Fibonacci sequence, pioneered in contemporary poetry by Inger Christensen, both Darcy and Eipe present profound meditations on the fragile condition of the planet and its inhabitants in the early twenty-first century.