Plants in Contemporary Poetry by John Ryan

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This book studies representations of plants in contemporary American, English, and Australian poetry, addressing the relationship between poetic language and the subjectivity, agency, sentience, consciousness, and intelligence of vegetal life. It forwards an interdisciplinary model of ‘botanical criticism’ in examining the role of plants in cont

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Plants in Contemporary Poetry by John Ryan

This book studies representations of plants in contemporary American, English, and Australian poetry, addressing the relationship between poetic language and the subjectivity, agency, sentience, consciousness, and intelligence of vegetal life. It forwards an interdisciplinary model of botanical criticism in examining the role of plants in cont

John Charles Ryan is a poet and scholar who holds appointments as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Arts at the University of New England in Australia and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia. His teaching and research cross between the environmental and digital humanities. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of several research books, including the Bloomsbury title Digital Arts (2014, as co-author), The Language of Plants (University of Minnesota Press, 2017, as co-editor and contributor), and Southeast Asian Ecocriticism (Lexington Books, 2017, as editor and contributor). His poetry works include Katoomba Incantation (Cyberwit, 2011), Two With Nature (Fremantle Press, 2012) and No Requiem for the Forest (Hallowell Press, 2018).

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ISBN 13 9780367667627
ISBN 10 0367667622
Title Plants in Contemporary Poetry
Author John Ryan
Series Perspectives On The Non-Human In Literature And Culture
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Routledge
Year published 2020-09-30
Number of pages 246
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.