Green Voices: Understanding Contemporary Nature Poetry

by Terry Gifford

This text seeks to discover what different notions of nature actually underlie contemporary poetry, and how they relate to traditional assumptions about "nature" in the poetry of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. It also asks what new contributions to British nature poetry have been made by Black and Asian poets, by women and radical green poets. The author argues that the traditions of Pope and Goldsmith are continued in the present day by the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905510292
• ISBN13: 9781905510290
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"