Poetry and the Anthropocene
Subtitle: Ecology, Biology and Technology in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781138941687
Subjects: Hughes, ted, 1930-1998; English poetry, history and criticism, 20th century; English poetry, irish authors, history and criticism; Nature in literature
Description: "This book is about the way shifting conceptions of ecology, biology and technology significantly alter what it means to write poetry about nature in a time of environmental crisis. It offers a radical re-reading of three major British poets, Ted Hughes, Derek Mahon and JH Prynne, and their aesthetic strategies for negotiating the complex feedbacks between organisms and their environments in a technological world. Their poetry not only provides ways of thinking and communicating about ecology and biology, but shows how the unpredictable processes of thought and communication impact on organic life in the Anthropocene, providing a substantial challenge to aesthetics, ethics and politics"--