The article examines selected poems that deal with inter-species relations in a multispecies world, from the collections of poems Tisoč osemdeset stopinj (A Thousand and Eight Degrees) by Alenka Jovanovski and Roko razje (Decays the Hand) by Vesna Liponik. Through analysis and interpretation, I consider how their poetics work when colliding with the demonisation of the Other, and overt or covert social and environmental speciesism. In doing so, I discuss the symbolic and active power of poetry, the poets’ critique of the binary divide between man and other beings, and their emphasis on the inherent value of animals and, in a wider context, their political-economic critique of global capitalism and linguistic, symbolic, material human violence against other species and nature.
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