Contemporary Poetry

136 contemporary poetry people in charge’ (p. 6 ) of the earth. He emphasises that earth ‘has not evolved solely for our benefi ...

environment and space 137 man part of the world, an “Other” that we are barely beginning to be able to know’.^11 A POETICS OF PL ...

138 contemporary poetry themselves in this way. I did immediately see it as an extended sequence.^14 The sonorous momentum of th ...

environment and space 139 ing is introduced: ‘Sparks had furred its low roof. In dawn-light the troughed water fl oated a damson ...

140 contemporary poetry The poem is dedicated to Mariana Richardson ( 1830 – 91 ), whose ‘father owned the land / where I grew u ...

environment and space 141 rifi ed about poststructuralism and seized on ‘Meditation at Lagunitas’ as an antistructuralist Whitma ...

142 contemporary poetry violence, it’s a taste for power / That amounts to contempt for the body’.^21 Anne Szumigalski was known ...

environment and space 143 The poem ends with the hope that ‘next year they may fl ower with rockroses / or stiff honeycomb coral ...

144 contemporary poetry But it’s true isn’t it, that before something has become a whole we may not refer to it as divided? The ...

environment and space 145 many years ago, the word space had a strictly geometrical meaning: the idea it evoked, was simply that ...

146 contemporary poetry wake of changes in relationships between place, language, and nationality, and an increased focus on the ...

environment and space 147 The sequence includes gobbets of vernacular and references to political unrest, and chronicles the imp ...

148 contemporary poetry with ‘Environmentalists, ecologists / and conservationists’, who are described as ‘fi ne no doubt. / Ped ...

environment and space 149 anxiety regarding identity, confi gurations of community and national affi liations. Scottish poet Kat ...

150 contemporary poetry such an act betrays nostalgia. The closing brutal image is of the speaker’s own effects being cleared by ...

environment and space 151 By contrast, the sonnets document the less ephemeral elements of city life and make an appeal to histo ...

152 contemporary poetry sets for itself the study of the precise laws and specifi c effects of the geographical environment, whe ...

environment and space 153 near the end of King Lear: ‘He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven / And fi re us hence as f ...

154 contemporary poetry TRAVELOGUE FROM THE REGIONAL TO THE GLOBAL: ROBERT MINHINNICK AND LORNA GOODISON Travel and mobility are ...

environment and space 155 and spirituality, as well as death and destruction. Beginning in South Wales, the speaker muses on red ...