The Anthropocene Lyric Hardcover

India

Tom Bristow

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.

1137364742

9781137364746

English

Palgrave MacMillan

11 Jun 2015

Tom Bristow is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He read English Literature at the University of Leicester from 1999-2003 and his PhD was awarded by the University of Edinburgh in 2008. Tom is a member of the Mellon Australian Observatory in the Environmental Humanities research programme, University of Sydney; editor of Philosophy Activism Nature (PAN); and former President of the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture, Australia and New Zealand (ASLEC-ANZ).

Through a careful selection of writers and texts, The Anthropocene Lyric is a useful tool that can be used to explore the relationship between the human and more-than-human world within the context of the Anthropocene, where poetry has a firm foothold. (Veronica Fibisan, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, September, 2017)."Bristow's book is a significant, insightful and lyrical contribution to ecopoetic studies on many important levels." (Sue Edney, Green Letters - Studies in Ecocriticism, Vol. 21 (1), 2017)."The gambit of Bristow's book is that ecopoetry offers one path to a reconsideration of human positioning on earth. ... This is an excellent book, and one that confirms Bristow's place among the vanguard of ecopoetic theorists." (Mark Dickinson, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Vol. 23 (3), November, 2016)