The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster is Richard Brautigan's seventh poetry publication.

The collection of ninety-eight poems includes thirty-eight that were previously uncollected.

The rest were gathered from five of Brautigan's previous poetry publications.

[1] In some cases, all of the poems from an earlier book were included in this volume.

The title poem uses just four lines to draw a parallel between the 1958 Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia, and the use by the author's lover of birth control pills.