Decentering the human, imagining the more-than-human (Poetry, plants, and the New England region of Australia)

John Charles Ryan

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Decentering the human, imagining the more-than-human (Poetry, plants, and the New England region of Australia)

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Decentering the human, imagining the more-than-human (Poetry, plants, and the New England region of Australia)

John Charles Ryan

Litera, Vol.19(2), pp.173-193

22/07/2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21831/ltr.v19i2.33441

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Located in the state of New South Wales, Australia, the Northern Tablelands bioregion is a high plateau landscape unique for its geological, faunal, and floristic variety. Known widely as the New England of Australia, the Tablelands is “a strange, almost inverted landscape” of undulating plains aside steep chasms. This article analyzes poetry about the flora of the New England Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. The article focuses on the importance of plants and poetry to the biocultural heritage of Australia. The research objective was to understand the natural and cultural dimensions of Tablelands plants as expressed in poetry. The research involved visiting botanical communities, examining historical documents, interviewing conservationists, and writing poetry. The results suggest that poetry encourages engagement with, and respect for, human and more-than-human life. The article concludes that, in the Anthropocene age, environmental poetry is essential to environmental ethics.

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Title: Decentering the human, imagining the more-than-human (Poetry, plants, and the New England region of Australia)
Creators: John Charles Ryan - Southern Cross University
Publication Details: Litera, Vol.19(2), pp.173-193
Publisher: Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta
Identifiers: 991013024978002368
Copyright: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Academic Unit: Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
Language: English; Indonesian
Resource Type: Journal article

Decentering the human, imagining the more-than-human (Poetry, plants, and the New England region of Australia)

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