The Anthropocene Lyric: An Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place [Hardcover]

This book takes the work of three contemporary poets John Burnside, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald to reveal how an environmental poetics of place is of significant relevance for the Anthropocene: a geological marker asking us to think radically of the human as one part of the more-than-human world.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Jam Tree Gully Poems
2. Gift Songs
3. A Sleepwalk on the Severn
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Through a careful selection of writers and texts, The Anthropocene Lyric is a useful tool that can be used to explore the relationship between the human and more-than-human world within the context of the Anthropocene, where poetry has a firm foothold. (Veronica Fibisan, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, September, 2017)

Bristows book is a significant, insightful and lyrical contribution to ecopoetic studies on many important levels. (Sue Edney, Green Letters - Studies in Ecocriticism, Vol. 21 (1), 2017)

The gambit of Bristows book is that ecopoetry offers one path to a reconsideration of human positioning on earth. & This is an excellent book, and one that confirms Bristows place among the vanguard of ecopoetic theorists. (Mark Dickinson, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Vol. 23 (3), November, 2016)

Tom Bristow is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He read English Literature at the University of Leicester from 19992003 and his PhD was awarded by the University of Edinburgh in 2008. Tom is a member of the Mellon Australian Observatory in the Environmental Humanities research programme, University of Sydney; editor of Philosophy Activism Nature (PAN); and formels!