New Poetics of Climate Change

Matthew Griffiths is a poet and literary critic.

The most exciting aspects of The New Poetics of Climate Change are its linking of climate change to texts that do not focus primarily on 'nature', and the comparison of lesser-known environmental poets with major canonical figures. Twenty-seventeen was the third warmest year on record; this book is uncannily topical.

• 1. Introduction: Climate Changes Everythingi. The Climate Change Poemii. Criticism and Climate Changeiii. Modernism Matters2. A New Climate for Modernismi. The Modes of Modernismii. The Changing Climate of The Waste Land3. Wallace Stevens's Fictions of Our Climatei. Some Poems of Our Climateii. Models for Atmospheric Apprenticesiii. Notes Towards a Climatic Poeticsiv. The Poetics of our Climate4. Basil Bunting and Nature's Discordi. Nature in Bunting's Romantic Modernismii. An Economy of the Elements, the Poetics of Entropyiii. Bunting Unboundiv. Mapping the Order5. David Jones's Anathemata and the Gratuitous Environmenti. Poetry versus Progressivismii. The Fractal Formiii. The Associative Anthropoceneiv. Contingent Culture6. The Poems of Our Climate Changei. Warming to the themeii. Sea Change: Modernist Poetics and Climate Change7. Conclusion: The New Poetics of Climate ChangeReferencesNotesIndex