Tim Cresswell

Plastiglomerate

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Plastiglomerate finds our world in the midst of environmental disaster: from plastic pollution and wrecked shipping to fires in the Amazon rainforest. Geographer-poet Tim Cresswell writes with the forensic eye of a professional, bending the hard vocabulary of science into a jagged but compelling lyric that telescopes from the vast to the cellular in the space of a line. Plastiglomerate completes a trilogy of poetry books that examines mankind's impact on the earth; its central poem recycles the British folk ballad 'The Twa Magicians' to make an ecological protest song fit for the Anthropocene age. But among powerful depictions of the natural… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-908058-87-4
EAN: 9781908058874
Produktnummer: 34036054
Verlag: Penned in the Margins
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 798 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Tim Cresswell is a geographer and poet. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on themes of place and mobility including, most recently, Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place (University of Chicago Press, 2019). His poems are widely published on both sides of the Atlantic including in The Rialto, Poetry Wales, Magma, the Moth, LemonHound and Salamander. His two previous collections of poetry, Soil (2013) and Fence (2015) were both published by Penned in the Margins. He co-edits the interdisciplinary journal GeoHumanities and is the first Visiting Professor at the Centre for Place Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University Tim lives and works in Edinburgh where he is Ogilvie Professor of Geography at the University of Edinburgh.