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The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics offers comprehensive coverage of the vital and growing movement of ecopoetics. This volume begins with a general introduction to the field, followed by six sections: Perspectives: broad overviews engaging fields such as biosemiosis, kinship praxis, and philosophical approaches Experiments: formal innovations developed by poets in response to planetary crises Earth and Water: explorations of poetic entanglement with planetary chemical and biological systems Waste/Toxicity/Precarity: poetics addressing the effects of pollution and climate change Environmental Justice and Activism: examinations of poetry as an engine of political and cultural change Region and Place: an international array of traditional and contemporary geographically focused responses to ecosystems and environmental conditions; and Subjectivities/Affects/Sexualities: investigations of gender, ethnicity, and race as they intersect with ecological concerns Each section includes an overview and summary addressing the specific essays in the section. These previously unpublished essays represent a wide variety of nationalities, backgrounds, perspectives, and critical approaches exploring the interdisciplinary field of ecopoetics. Contributions from leading scholars working across the globe make The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics a landmark textbook and reference for a variety of researchers and students.

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Author:   Julia Fiedorczuk ,  Mary Newell ,  Bernard Quetchenbach ,  Orchid Tierney
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.850kg
ISBN:  

9781032033792

ISBN 10:   1032033797
Pages:   436
Publication Date:   27 October 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction Section I. Perspectives Mary Newell Chapter 1. The Poetics of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene Lynn Keller Chapter 2. The Agencene H. L. Hix Chapter 3. Decolonial Praxis/Indigenous Resurgence: Relational Accountability in ‘Kin Study’ Poetics Linda Russo Chapter 4. Planetary Poiesis Aaron Moe Chapter 5. Lucretius, Extinction Rebellion, and the Poetics of Love and Rage Evelyn Reilly Section II. Experiments Julia Fiedorczuk Chapter 6. Indigenous Poiesis: The Semiotics of Circulation in Villegas’ Maya Poetry Charles Maurice Pigott Chapter 7. Embodiment as an ‘Ongoing Formal Experience’: New Materialist Encounters with Ecopoetics Joanna Mąkowska Chapter 8. Down in Strata: Stratigraphic Poetics and Feminist Literary Engagement in Brenda Hillman’s Cascadia Gerald Maa and Ben Rutherfurd Chapter 9. Cartographical Imagination as an Ecopoetic Mode of Engaging the Global Grzegorz Czemiel Chapter 10. ""Not the light / of any evening / but the light / of this evening"": Ecopoetics, Ethics and Particularity in the Work of Thomas A Clark Harriet Tarlo Section III. Earth and Water Orchid Tierney Chapter 11. Phytopoetics: Human-Plant Relations and the Poiesis of Vegetal Life"" John Charles Ryan Chapter 12. Amazonian Zoophytography: Ecopoetic Writing with Animals and Plants Patrícia Vieira Chapter 13. Elegiac Joy: Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Poetics of the Garden Anissa Wardi Chapter 14. Riparian Entanglements: an Ecopoetics of the Colonial River Stephen Collis Chapter 15. ""Nature’s way of representing the world"": Alice Oswald’s Poetry and Poetics of Water Christian Schmitt-Kilb Chapter 16. Women Poets Breaking the Waves of the Portuguese Sea Nuno Marques and Margarida Vale de Gato Chapter 17. ""Will plastic make life impossible?: Transpacific Poets Confront Ocean Plastic Aaron Pinnix Section IV. Waste/Toxicity/Precarity Adam Dickinson Chapter 18. The Work of Reconnection, Japanese Ecopoetry by Rumiko Kora and Ryoichi Wago Ayako Takahashi and Judy Halebsky Chapter 19. ""The machine took me in’: Processing Nuclear Labors in Kathleen Flenniken’s Plume"" Nicole M. Merola Chapter 20. Extinction and Re-Plenitude Joshua Schuster Chapter 21. Anti-Atmospheres and Everyday Rare Phenomena Orchid Tierney Chapter 22. ""Imperial Debris"": the Vietnam War and Mai Der Vang’s Yellow Rain Zhou Xiaojing Section V. Environmental Justice and Activism Bernard Quetchenbach Chapter 23. Saboteurial Poetics: Blockades, Machine-Breaking, & Infrastructure from Below Alexandra Campbell and Fred Carter Chapter 24. Witness to the Exchange: Documentary Environmental Poetics Jonathan Skinner Chapter 25. Energy Ecopoetics Margaret Ronda and Kristin George Bagdanov Chapter 26. ""To end again tomorrow"": The Virtual Reality Ecopoetics of On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World Kaitlin Moore Section VI. Region and Place Bernard Quetchenbach Chapter 27. African Ecopoetics Philip Aghoghvwia and Emily McGiffin Chapter 28. ‘New’ Nature Poetry: An Ecopoetical Reading of Contemporary Pakistani Nature Poetry Munazza Yaqoob Chapter 29. Ecopoetics and Ecofeminist Poetics in Contemporary China Liansu Meng Chapter 30. Vahni Capildeo and the Convergence of Ecopoetics and Dougla Poetics Lubabah Chowdhury Chapter 31. Building a Homestead: An Ecopoetic Reading of the Poetry of Paul Celan Paweł Piszczatowski Chapter 32. Country Matters: Introducing Australian Ecopoetics Tom Bristow Chapter 33. Francophone Ecopoetics: The Performativity of the Text Gina Stamm Section VII. Subjectivities/Affects/Sexualities Orchid Tierney Chapter 34. Taken by the Creek: The Queer Ecology of Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Crime Against Nature Stacey Balkun Chapter 35. Entangled Remembrances: Counter-memory and New Materialism in Judith Wright’s Poetry"" Rıza Çimen Chapter 36. Indigenous Counter-Narratives: Sámi Poetry Challenging the Mastery of Nature Anne Heith Chapter 37. The (Un)Sustainable Self and Post-Human Spaces of Interiority in Contemporary North American and Polish Poetry Paulina Ambroży Chapter 38. It Expresses THEM!: Black Women’s Writings and Ecopoetics Carlyn Ferrari Chapter 39. Who was ever only themselves?"" Cross-border Ecologies of Translation Zoë Skoulding

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Julia Fiedorczuk is a poet, writer, translator, and lecturer at the Institute of English Studies and a cofounder of the Environmental Studies Center at Warsaw University. She created the program for the experimental School of Ecopoetics at the Institute of Reportage in Warsaw. She has published several poetry books, the last of which, Psalms (2017), received the Szymborska Prize, Poland’s most prestigious award for poetry, as well as three novels, short stories and essays in ecocriticism, including Ekopoetyka / Ecopoética / Ecopoetics (with Gerardo Beltrán, Warsaw, 2015). Her work has been translated into over 20 languages, including books in English, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Chinese and Georgian. Mary Newell authored the poetry chapbooks Re-SURGE and TILT/ HOVER/ VEER and essays including ""When Poetry Rivers"" (Interim journal 38.3). She is co-editor of Poetics for the More-than-Human-World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary. She teaches creative writing at the University of Connecticut. Bernard Quetchenbach is the author of Back from the Far Field, a study of twentieth century American poetry; two poetry collections; and two chapbooks. His essay collection Accidental Gravity was a finalist and honorable mention in the 2017 Foreword Indies Book of the Year contest. ""The Man by the Fire,"" his meditation on a Gary Snyder poem, was selected as the 2019 winner of the O. Marvin Lewis award from Weber: The Contemporary West. He edited The Bunch Grass Motel: The Collected Poems of Randall Gloege, a 2018 High Plains Book Awards finalist. With Mary Newell and Sarah Nolan, he edited Poetics for the More-Than-Human World, an anthology of poetry and commentary from several continents. He was an Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Artist-in-Residence in the Custer-Gallatin National Forest in 2015, and a workshop leader for the Yellowstone Forever/National Park Service Arts-in-the Park program in 2017. He is a professor of English at Montana State University Billings, where he teaches literature, environmental humanities, composition, and creative writing. Orchid Tierney is an assistant professor of English at Kenyon College. She is the author of the collection a year of misreading the wildcats (2019).

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