The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster is a 1968 poetry collection by Richard Brautigan, known for its short, surreal poems that often juxtapose the mundane with the tragic, like the title poem which compares a lover taking birth control pills to the 1958 mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia, imagining lost people inside her. The book, published by Four Seasons Foundation, gathers poems from 1957-1968, including many previously uncollected works, and became a significant part of his legacy as a counter-culture icon.