Plants in Contemporary Poetry: Ecocriticism and the Botanical Imagination
Author:   John Ryan (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   246
Publication Date:   24 August 2017
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Author:   John Ryan (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138186286


ISBN 10:   1138186287
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   24 August 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction: Plants’ Lives in Contemporary Poetry 1. Science and Affect in the Plant Poetics of Judith Wright 2. Consciousness and Temporality in Alice Oswald’s Botanical Field 3. Let Plants Be Thy Medicine: Elisabeth Bletsoe’s Pharmacopœia 4. Plant Voices in the Garden: Louise Glück’s The Wild Iris and Other Works 5. An Anti-Pastoralism of Plants? John Kinsella’s Regional Poetics of Flora 6. Cross-Species Empathy: Lorna Dee Cervantes’ Emplumada 7. Plant Poiesis and Spiritual Ecology in the Poetry of Les Murray 8. Transcendence and Rapture in Mary Oliver’s Botanical Poetics Conclusion: Towards a Model of Botanical Criticism

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John Charles Ryan is a poet and scholar who holds appointments as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Arts at the University of New England in Australia and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia. His teaching and research cross between the environmental and digital humanities. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of several research books, including the Bloomsbury title Digital Arts (2014, as co-author), The Language of Plants (University of Minnesota Press, 2017, as co-editor and contributor), and Southeast Asian Ecocriticism (Lexington Books, 2017, as editor and contributor). His poetry works include Katoomba Incantation (Cyberwit, 2011), Two With Nature (Fremantle Press, 2012) and No Requiem for the Forest (Hallowell Press, 2018).

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