1st Edition
Contemporary Irish Ecocentric Poetry and the Writing of Nature Sounds and Signs
By Wit Pietrzak
Copyright 2025
146 Pages
by
Routledge
146 Pages
by
Routledge
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Contemporary Irish Ecocentric Poetry and the Writing of Nature explores how poetic language can apprehend non-anthropocentric points of view. It builds on the recent developments in environmental humanities and seeks to show that four Irish poets, Derek Mahon, Paula Meehan, Moya Cannon and Seán Lysaght, offer means of diversifying our perception of nature and our place in it. This... Read more
Introduction: Ecopoetics Between Ethics and Epistemology
1 The Search for Silence in the Poetry and Prose of Derek Mahon
2 Breathing, Writing, Feeling: The Poetry of Paula Meehan
3 The Songs of Light and Grace in the Poetry of Moya Cannon
4 Reading the Language of Nature: The Poetry of Seán Lysaght
Biography
Wit Pietrzak is Professor of British and Irish literature at the University of Lodz, Poland.
