Anthropocene Poetry

Yvonne Reddick is Reader in English Literature and Creative Writing at University of Central Lancashire, UK. She is the author of Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet (Palgrave 2017) and Burning Season (Bloodaxe 2023). She is joint editor of Magma: The Anthropocene Issue (2019), and she wrote and presented the environmental documentary Searching for Snow Hares (2023), directed by Aleks Domanski.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Anthropocene Poetry.- 3. ‘The World in a Glance’: Ted Hughes, Anthropocene Scales and Environmental Cosmopolitanism.- 4. Seamus Heaney’s Environmental Poetry: Conservation Causes, Deep Time, Shifting Scales and Climate Change.- 5. Alice Oswald: Voyaging in Anthropocene Waters.- 6. Pascale Petit: Entanglement, Animals and the ‘Anthropocene Extinction’.- 7. Kei Miller: Ecopoetics of Relation, Resistance and Grief.- 8. Seasonal Disturbances: Environment, Migration, Science and an Anthropocene Poetics of Relation in Karen McCarthy Woolf’s Work.- 9. Coda: Everyday poems from the anthropocene and the Anthropocene Issue.