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'This book takes the work of three contemporary poets John Burnside, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald to reveal how an environmental poetics of place is of significant relevance for the Anthropocene: a geological marker asking us to think radically of the human as one part of the more-than-human world.' (Publication abstract)
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[Review] The Anthropocene Lyric
2018
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— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , November no. 63 2018;
— Review of The Anthropocene Lyric : An Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place 2015 multi chapter work criticism'People who have understood that ‘laws of nature’ on Planet Earth are changing rapidly, unpredictably and frighteningly have responded in different ways: by presenting scientific research and data to the public, by refuting the optimistic or self-interested arguments of sceptics, by attempting to get international action on CO2 emission reductions, on ecological systems or on rising sea-levels. A common concern has been to establish modes of understanding and research into the situations lumped under terms like ‘Anthropocene’, climate change or ‘environmental degradation’.' (Introduction)
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[Review] The Anthropocene Lyric
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , November no. 63 2018;
— Review of The Anthropocene Lyric : An Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place 2015 multi chapter work criticism'People who have understood that ‘laws of nature’ on Planet Earth are changing rapidly, unpredictably and frighteningly have responded in different ways: by presenting scientific research and data to the public, by refuting the optimistic or self-interested arguments of sceptics, by attempting to get international action on CO2 emission reductions, on ecological systems or on rising sea-levels. A common concern has been to establish modes of understanding and research into the situations lumped under terms like ‘Anthropocene’, climate change or ‘environmental degradation’.' (Introduction)
