Journal article
"A Touch of Recognition": Wetlands in Australian Poetry
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Vol.28(3), pp.890-916
Autumn 2021
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Abstract
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Ecopoetry—the practice of writing, reading, and critiquing poetic works that thematize the natural world and issues of sustainability—is hampered by its reliance on the terms “environment” and “nature” as undifferentiated catch-alls. As typically invoked, the terms tend to cover ecology, nonhuman life, oceans, rivers, rocks, animals, plants, forests, fungi, and so on without distinguishing sufficiently between these diverse animate and inanimate agents in the context of their material interrelationships. In this regard, J. Scott Bryson, for instance, characterizes ecopoetry as a poetic mode that “while adhering to certain conventions of traditional nature poetry, advances beyond that tradition and takes on distinctly contemporary problems and issues” (2). Leonard Scigaj, moreover, highlights ecopoetry’s prevailing emphasis on “human cooperation with nature conceived as a dynamic, interrelated series of cyclic feedback systems” (37). These assessments and others, however, often skim over the “specific” forms of “environment” and “nature” that engender the making—the poiesis—of “specific”...
Details
- Title
- "A Touch of Recognition": Wetlands in Australian Poetry
- Creators
- John Charles Ryan - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Vol.28(3), pp.890-916
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 27
- Identifiers
- 991013024978702368
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2022 Oxford University Press
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article