Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)

Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis addresses what is arguably the most crucial issue of human history through the lens of late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century Irish poetry. The poets that it surveys range from familiar presences in the contemporary Irish literary canon - Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Paula Meehan, Moya Cannon - to lesser-known figures, such as the experimental poet Maurice Scully, contemporary poets Stephen Sexton and Sean Hewitt, and the Irish-language poets Simon O Faolain, Brid Ni Mhorain, and Maire Dinny Wren. Adopting a variety of ecotheoretical approaches, the essays gathered here address several interrelated themes crucial to the climate crisis: the way in which the scalar scope of climate change interweaves local and global, distant past and imminent future, nature and culture; the critical importance of acknowledging the complex kinship of the human and nonhuman; and the necessity of warning against the devastating environmental losses to come while mourning those that already occurred. Ultimately, by envisioning new ways of existing on an earth that humans no longer dominate, this book engages in what the philosopher Jonathan Lear refers to as a process of 'radical anticipation'.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Irish Literature
Release date:	November 2021
First published:	2022
Editors:	Andrew J. Auge • Eugene O'Brien
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	204
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-71408-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN:	0-367-71408-6
Barcode:	9780367714086

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