Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry’ examines the question of
how recent English-language poetry from Wales has responded to the
diverse physical environments of Wales. The first volume to offer a
sustained assessment of Welsh poetry in English within the context of
recent developments in environmental literary criticism, this book
also draws on aspects of human geography to explore the rich
contemporary poetics of Welsh space and place. Opening with an
examination of poets from the 1960s as well as the early work of R.S.
Thomas, ‘Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry’ subsequently
concentrates on the poetry of writers who have come to prominence
since the 1970s: Gillian Clarke, Ruth Bidgood, Robert Minhinnick, Mike
Jenkins, Christine Evans, and Ian Davidson.Close reading of key texts
reveals the way in which these writers variously create Welsh places,
landscapes, and environments – fashioning rural and urban spaces
into poetic geographies that are both abundantly physical and
inescapably cultural. Far from reducing Wales to mere scenery, the
poetry that emerges from this book engages with the environments of
Wales, not just for their own sake, but as a crucial way of exploring
key issues in Welsh culture – from the negotiation of female
identity in a land of masculine myths to the exploration of Welsh
space in a global context.
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ISBN
9781786837325
Publisert
2021
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University of Wales Press
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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