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In the twenty-first century, is it possible to be 'at one' with nature? The poems reflect on our desire to locate likeness, empathy and kinship with our environments, whilst embracing inevitable difference. As the narratives belonging to animal fables, Doomsday Preppers and climate change deniers are adapted, new metaphors are found that speak of both estrangement and entanglement. Drawing at times from her residency in the Amazon rainforest, Galleymore delves into a world of pink-toed tarantulas, the erotic lives of barnacles, and caged owls that behave like their keepers. 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'Mother Earth' is less an entity to be revered than a  command to care-giving. Lyrics and syllabically-constrained fables  examine the play and power involved in creating new life, whether  biologically or via cartoonists' animation.  Galleymore hones in  on cuteness and its relationships to hyper-capitalism and environmental  crisis to produce a deliberately queasy ecopoetics. Animal extinctions  are likened to failed businesses and sainthood is granted to a dubious  character named Michael Mouse. Studies of wild creatures join those of  pets, pot plants and animal videos: here is a new nature - one shaped by  the extremes of our contemporary desires.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49753692242193,"sku":"NGR9781800173880","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49768473297169,"sku":"GOR013557040","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51830888857873,"sku":"CIN1800173881G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52110625898769,"sku":"GOR014465001","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53129302540561,"sku":"GOR014760365","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1800173881.jpg?v=1756707862"},{"product_id":"teaching-environmental-writing-book-isabel-galleymore-9781350068414","title":"Teaching Environmental Writing","description":"Environmental writing is an increasingly popular literary genre, and a multifaceted genre at that. 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Proposing a set of original pedagogical exercises influenced by ecocriticism, the book draws on a number of self-reflexive, environmentally-conscious poets, including Juliana Spahr, Jorie Graham and Les Murray, as creative and stimulating models for teachers and students.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51088383082769,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51088384426257,"sku":"NIN9781350068414","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1350068411.jpg?v=1751017179"},{"product_id":"dazzle-ship-book-isabel-galleymore-9781905208289","title":"Dazzle Ship","description":"Exploring interactions of the natural world in the light of human relationships, Isabel Galleymore's first collection of poems move between the loving, the symbiotic and the parasitic. 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