Of Lyric Temporality and Materiality: Alice Oswald’s Environmental Poetics

Heather H. Yeung

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Alice Oswald’s Environmental Poetics

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Pages:: 91–110

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004445277_005

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This essay examines the interconnectivity of poetic materiality and temporality, and landscape and voice, in the work of the British poet Alice Oswald. With attention to recent developments in lyric studies and ecopoetry, and through an examination of Oswald’s poetic outputs to date, the essay reconnects the material and embodied environments articulated in Oswald’s work with her poetically self-conscious attention to lyric form and voice, arguing for a more complex mode of reading and understanding Oswald’s environmental poetics.

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Modern Ecopoetry

Reading the Palimpsest of the More-Than-Human World

Series: Nature, Culture and Literature, Volume: 16

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004445277

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 11 Dec 2020

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- Literature and Cultural Studies

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction Finding a Compass to a Commonwealth of Breath

Part 1 Belonging: The Sacred Sense of Place

Chapter 1 The Roots and Affinities of Dylan Thomas in the Works of Claudio Rodríguez

Chapter 2 The Wisdom of Birds in Robert Bringhurst’s Poetry

Part 2 Stubborn Materiality and Environmental Poli^(e)t^(h)ics

Chapter 3 The Agentic Power of Matter in Lorine Niedecker’s “Wintergreen Ridge” and “Paean to Place”

Chapter 4 Of Lyric Temporality and Materiality

Chapter 5 The Political Is Personal

Part 3 Postcolonial Resistance and Neoliberal Toxicity

Chapter 6 Development as Deformation

Chapter 7 Meena Kandasamy’s Contestation of Inherited Cultural Landscapes in Touch

Chapter 8 “Just Junk in a Safeway Cart I’m Pushing Down to the Recycling Center”

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Alice Oswald’s Environmental Poetics

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