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Plastiglomerate (Paperback)
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Plastiglomerate (Paperback)
Series: Earthworks, 3
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List price R300
Loot Price R270
Discovery Miles 2 700
You Save R30 (10%)
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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
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