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    Affective Edgelands: Wildness, History, and Technology in Britain’s Postindustrial and Postnatural Topographies

    Geography has wielded a signifier for the urban phenomena, edgelands: “the interfacial interzone” between urban and rural.1 As Frances Spalding notes, the term is new, freshly brandished by innovative spatial dis...

    Tom Bristow in Ecocriticism and Geocriticism (2016)

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    Jam Tree Gully

    I argue that emphases on personal, felt experiences in John Kinsella’s Jam Tree Gully enact the simultaneous writing of habitat and pained husbandry in the WA landscape; it is a strategy that delimits the ethica...

    Tom Bristow in The Anthropocene Lyric: An Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place (2015)

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    A Sleepwalk on the Severn

    Perception of placehood is subject to the changeability of the moon in A Sleepwalk on the Severn; my critical analysis of human encounters as ecopoetic extensions to sensory exploration finds them inescapably ti...

    Tom Bristow in The Anthropocene Lyric: An Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place (2015)

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    Introduction

    Reconsidering the subject of poetry in the context of the Anthropocene discloses the contemporary lyric as an emotional mode of subject formation and place-making. The first section reveals how a new collocati...

    Tom Bristow in The Anthropocene Lyric: An Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place (2015)

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    Gift Songs

    Burnsides engagement with a modernist aesthetics of order in his poetics of place leads into a thesis on world-making that animates and renews our feeling for the earth. I focus on the way that mutability is e.....

    Tom Bristow in The Anthropocene Lyric: An Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place (2015)

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    Conclusion

    First of all I review ideas of history, belonging and selfhood to clarify the challenge of the Anthropocene as finding creative and instructive ways of attuning human sensitivities to more-than-human contexts....

    Tom Bristow in The Anthropocene Lyric: An Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place (2015)