Valued in utilitarian terms as channels for industry, agriculture, and urban development, rivers are among the most biodiverse yet degraded ecosystems globally. In addition to pragmatic conservation measures, the long-term wellbeing of rivers requires new perspectives on human–water relations that call attention to—and nurture—the cultural, social, and spiritual significance of riverscapes. Drawing from current thinking in the interdisciplinary environmental humanities, this article proposes the idea of hydropoetics as an outlook on rivers based on the ancient idea of poiesis. On a planet undergoing rapid environmental change, three features—embodiment, relationality, and multiscalarity—are important to a hydropoetics attuned to the urgencies of the present. Asserting the capacities of rivers themselves, this framework is developed in reference to contemporary poetry narrating human interdependencies with rivers, including poems by Indonesian, Papua New Guinean, Australian, and British writers. Rather than presuming to give voice to rivers, the framework developed in this article recognizes the inherent language of rivers and, in this way, presents a medium to hear their voice(s). Through the transformative capacity of language—new words, new worlds—hydropoetics inspires new visions of rivers inspiring openness to rivers as they exist as well as in their potential to emerge and transform.

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水文学：河流的再造

作为工业、农业和城市发展的渠道，河流被视为全球生物多样性最丰富但退化的生态系统之一。除了务实的保护措施外，河流的长期福祉还需要对人与水关系的新视角，以引起人们对河流景观的文化、社会和精神意义的关注和培育。本文借鉴当前环境人文学科的跨学科思想，在古代诗学思想的基础上，提出了水文诗学作为河流观的观点。. 在一个正在经历快速环境变化的星球上，三个特征——具身性、关联性和多尺度性——对于适应当前紧迫性的水文学很重要。断言河流本身的能力，这个框架是参考当代诗歌叙述人类与河流的相互依存关系而发展起来的，包括印度尼西亚、巴布亚新几内亚、澳大利亚和英国作家的诗歌。而不是假设给予声音河流，本文中开发的框架识别河流的固有语言，并以这种方式提供了一种听到它们声音的媒介。通过语言的变革能力——新词，新世界——水文诗学激发了河流的新视野，激发了河流的开放性，因为它们存在以及它们出现和转变的潜力。