Research Catalog

Title

Anthropocene poetry : place, environment, and planet / Yvonne Reddick.

Author

Reddick, Yvonne (Yvonne J.)

Publication

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2024]

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Details

Description

xiii, 389 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm.

Summary

• "Anthropocene Poetry: Place, Environment and Planet argues that the idea of the Anthropocene is inspiring new possibilities for poetry. It can also change the way we read and interpret poems. If environmental poetry was once viewed as linked to place, this book shows how poets are now grappling with environmental issues from the local to the planetary: climate change and the extinction crisis, nuclear weapons and waste, plastic pollution and the petroleum industry. This book intervenes in debates about culture and science, traditional poetic form and experimental ecopoetics, to show how poets are collaborating with environmental scientists and joining environmental activist movements to respond to this time of crisis. From the canonical work of Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, to award-winning poets Alice Oswald, Pascale Petit, Kei Miller, and Karen McCarthy Woolf, this book explores major figures from the past alongside acclaimed contemporary voices. It reveals Seamus Heaney's support for conservation
• causes and Ted Hughes's astonishingly forward-thinking research on climate change; it discusses how Pascale Petit has given poetry to Extinction Rebellion and how Karen McCarthy Woolf set sail with scientists to write about plastic pollution. This book deploys research on five poetry archives in the UK, USA and Ireland, and the author's insider insights into the commissioning processes and collaborative methods that shaped important contemporary poetry publications. Anthropocene Poetry finds that environmental poetry is flourishing in the face of ecological devastation. Such poetry speaks of the anxieties and dilemmas of our age, and searches for paths towards resilience and resistance." --

Series Statement

Literatures, cultures, and the environment

Uniform Title

Literatures, cultures, and the environment.

Subject

• Ecology > Poetry
• Poetry, Modern > History and criticism
• Ecology
• Poetry, Modern

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFD 24-592

ISBN

• 3031393880
• 9783031393884

OCLC

1387009838

Author

Reddick, Yvonne (Yvonne J.), author.

Title

Anthropocene poetry : place, environment, and planet / Yvonne Reddick.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2024]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Literatures, cultures, and the environment

Literatures, cultures, and the environment.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9783031393891

Research Call Number

JFD 24-592