Krishanu Maiti is an Assistant Professor of English at Sukumar Sengupta Mahavidyalaya, Keshpur, affiliated to Vidyasagar University, India. He earned his doctoral degree with a specialisation in representation and treatment of animals in Mondernist Poetry. Dr. Maiti has edited two scholarly books: Posthumanist Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Animals (2021) and Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics: A Critique (2019). His co-authored essay on ‘Veganism’ is included in The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies. He has been invited to deliver lectures on Literary Animal Studies to graduate students and early-career research scholars at various institutions. His areas of interest include Critical Animal Studies, Posthumanism and Environmental Humanities.

"Krishanu Maiti’s Pro-Animal Poetics: Poetry of D.H. Lawrence and Ted Hughes is a significant book that sheds light on the poems of Lawrence and Hughes from certain compelling perspectives of Animal Studies and impels us to “rethink” animals. The book draws our attention to “human epistemological limits”. It explores how the poems of Lawrence and Hughes offer a critique of Anthropocentrism and emphasise “a tangle of existence” in the ecosystem. In fine, it is a remarkable contribution to the posthumanist reading of the poems of D.H. Lawrence and Ted Hughes. On a final note, it reveals how contemporary poets like Alice Oswald and John Burnside carry the legacy of Ted Hughes."--Prof. (Dr) Joyjit Ghosh, Department of English Literature, Language and Cultural Studies, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal, India

• Foreword by Richard KerridgeIntroduction: Unthinking and Rethinking “Animal”Chapter 1: Animal Alterity: D.H. Lawrence and Human Epistemological LimitsChapter 2: Tangle of Existence: D. H. Lawrence and Moral SensibilityChapter 3: Animal Superiority: Ted Hughes and Critique of AnthropocentrismChapter 4: Ethics of Care: Ted Hughes and Animal VictimsFinal Imprints