As has been widely remarked, the Anthropocene has done strange things to our sense of time. The coincidence of deep time past and potentially catastrophic futures in the present-day consumption of fossil fuels has led to what Timothy Clark has called a derangement of scale. This article proposes that the work of Edward Thomas offers a mode of reading and thinking across multiple scales suitable to the disjunctive time of the Anthropocene. Concentrating on Thomas’ decentred perspectives, his interleaving of sound and syntax and innovation of a form of fractal poetics, I argue that his ecological sensibility anticipates both the radical interconnectedness of Timothy Morton’s ‘ecological thought’, and what Barbara Adam calls ‘time ecology’: a sense of landscapes constituted by other times. Reading Edward Thomas involves a poetics of time ecology – decentred and open, present to the enduring past and the already-occurring future – appropriate to the temporal distortions of the Anthropocene.