Michael w. Derby is a teacher, a researcher and occasionally a poet. He works with the Imaginative Education Research Group at Simon Fraser University. His research explores ecocritical pedagogies that inspire caring relationships with the more-than-human world. He also likes long walks in the forest.

Contents: How to love black snow by David W. Jardine - This is the mystery: meaning - Mycelia and the hermeneutics beneath us - The ecopoetics of education - Metaphor and thinking with this bird - Inoculating hermeneutics: Heidegger substrates - Inoculating hermeneutics: Gadamer substrates - Hermeneutics deep in the clearcut - Re-indigenization and the ethics of home-making.