Plastiglomerate E-Book

Tim Cresswell

• Herausgeber: Penned in the Margins
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 27

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

The third in a trilogy by acclaimed poet-geographer Tim Cresswell, Plastiglomerate charts the relentless impact of mankind on the environment. The central poem recycles the British folk ballad 'The Twa Magicians' to make a magnificent, troubling ecological protest song. From plastic pollution and wrecked vessels to forest fires and melting icecaps, Cresswell writes vital, urgent poetry for the Anthropocene age. His earlier collection Fence has been described by Rob McFarlane as 'A strange and spectral volume, born of a fence that separates nowhere from the now and here, deep in the high Arctic.'

Leseprobe

TIMCRESSWELL

Tim Cresswell is a geographer and poet. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on the themes of place and mobility. His most recent title is 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 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.

ALSOBYTIMCRESSWELL

POETRY

Fence (Penned in the Margins, 2015)

Soil (Penned in the Margins, 2013)

CRITICALWORKS

Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place (University of Chicago, 2019)

Place: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2014)

Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction (Blackwell, 2013)

On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World (Routledge, 2006)

The Tramp in America (Reaktion, 2001)

In  Place/Out  of  Place:  Geography,  Ideology  and  Transgression (University of Minnesota, 1996)

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© Tim Cresswell 2020

The right of Tim Cresswell to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988.

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First published 2020

ISBN

978-1-908058-87-4

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CONTENTS

Rialto Beach

Plastiglomerate

Nest Site Fidelity

Scale

Car Plant

Haul Out

In a Station of the Underground

The Two Magicians

A Theory of Migration

Heathrow

Legend

In Brookline, Massachusetts, I learn a new route

Newfoundland

Beached

Fugitive Pigments

Tremor

Dendrochronology

Spoil

Erratic

Friendly Floatees / Tripadvisor

What I said was

In the Natural History Museum

Harvest

Fulgurites

Flaws

Footfall

Blues for Lost Birds

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am grateful to the editors of the following publications where some of these poems have appeared: Clarion, The Clearing, Frogmore Papers, Kudzu House Quarterly, Reliquiae, Sandy River Review, Soundings Review, Spiral Orb, Stare’s Nest, Stockholm Review of Literature, Tears in the Fence and Transfers.