Poems That Could End the World

Poems That Could End the World is a darkly imaginative poetry collection that blends speculative fiction, environmental warning, apocalypse, satire, horror, and science fantasy into a single inventive body of work. Across poems about climate collapse, plastic pollution, nuclear winter, extinction, alien encounters, time distortion, underworld visions, and surreal cosmic catastrophe, Ronald A. Busse creates unsettling yet witty poetic worlds where destruction often feels both fantastical and disturbingly plausible.

The collection is especially distinctive for pairing end-of-the-world subject matter with a wide range of formal experimentation, including haiku, sevenlings, prose poetry, quaterns, blues, lists, anagrammatic poems, and more. The result is a book that appeals not only to readers of contemporary poetry, but also to fans of dystopian imagination, science fiction themes, and eco-conscious literature.