Plastiglomerate (Paperback)

Plastiglomerate finds our world in the midst of environmental disaster: from plastic pollution and wrecked shipping to fires in the Amazon rainforest. Geographer-poet Tim Cresswell writes with the forensic eye of a professional, bending the hard vocabulary of science into a jagged but compelling lyric that telescopes from the vast to the cellular in the space of a line. Plastiglomerate completes a trilogy of poetry books that examines mankind's impact on the earth; its central poem recycles the British folk ballad 'The Twa Magicians' to make an ecological protest song fit for the Anthropocene age. But among powerful depictions of the natural world under threat - from beached whales to lost birds - it is the humanity of Cresswell's imagery that wins through: leaf-blowers in surgical masks, blue nail polish, the biro 'leaking in the heat of my pocket'. 'Engaging and unsettling poems that tell it like it is, looking unflinchingly at environmental beauty and disaster. There is redemption here too, in the warmth of human relationships - while this is indeed a world of 'ruin and plunder', it is also a place 'full of love and sap'. A powerful and memorable collection.' - Jean Sprackland

General

Imprint:	Penned in the Margins
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Earthworks, 3
Release date:	April 2020
Authors:	Tim Cresswell
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	80
ISBN-13:	978-1-908058-76-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > The hydrosphere > Oceanography (seas) Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming
LSN:	1-908058-76-5
Barcode:	9781908058768

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