Calls in the Desert: Peter Reading’s Climate Change Poetry

Schlutz, Alexander M.

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“…Schlutz's (2018) article “Calls in the Desert: Peter Reading's Climate Change Poetry” explores Reading's −273.15 (2005) and Vendange Tardive (2010) from the perspective of ecocriticism to uncover the way the poet depicts climate crisis. In Schlutz's (2018) eyes, poetry is not “a medium of communication for scientific knowledge or matters of social justice” (p. 790); rather, it has its own intrinsic values and truth which are worth heeding in the current climate change era. Also taking Reading's climate change poems as the object of study, Xie's (2021) article “The Warning and Redemption of Apocalypse: The Climate Writing in –273.15 ” examines −273.15 by looking at the trope of apocalypse used in it.…”

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“…Critics focus on a certain theme of the poetic works—for example, apocalypse, gender, and justice—to reveal how poets represent and engage the realistic climate emergency. Schlutz's (2018) article “Calls in the Desert: Peter Reading's Climate Change Poetry” explores Reading's −273.15 (2005) and Vendange Tardive (2010) from the perspective of ecocriticism to uncover the way the poet depicts climate crisis. In Schlutz's (2018) eyes, poetry is not “a medium of communication for scientific knowledge or matters of social justice” (p. 790); rather, it has its own intrinsic values and truth which are worth heeding in the current climate change era.…”

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Climate change in contemporary British and Irish poetry and poetic criticism: Literary representation and environmental activism

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2022

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Much ink has been spilt on the study of climate change fiction (cli-fi), whereas relatively less attention has been devoted to the burgeoning growth of climate change poetry. As a sub-genre of ecopoetry which aims at dealing with realistic environmental issues and raising readers' awareness to protect the earth, climate change poetry not only represents the ongoing climatic crises in varied ways, be they realistic or imaginative, but also actively engages in provoking ecological responsibilities and environmental activism. This article is an overview of contemporary British and Irish climate change poetry and its literary criticism. Having emerged at the end of the 20th century in the United Kingdom, this poetic genre cuts across literature and environment, rising both as a prominent literary mode and an important environmental phenomenon. Interdisciplinarity, multiple topics, environmental activism, and experimentation are its primary characteristics. Current scholarship on contemporary British and Irish climate change poetry is limited and it mainly adopts theories of ecocriticism and the Anthropocene. Climate justice, poetry and activism, and comparative literary perspective are among promising avenues for the future study of this new poetic genre. Contemporary British and Irish climate change poetry, and its criticism, indicate both poets and critics' efforts to represent and, more importantly, to grapple with ongoing climate change. This article is categorized under: Trans-disciplinary Perspectives > Humanities and the Creative Arts Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Ethics and Climate Change K E Y W O R D S climate change poetry, ecocriticism, ecopoetry, environmental activism, poetic criticism 1 | INTRODUCTION Literary studies have witnessed a rise of "climate change criticism" since 2010. Special issues of journals and conferences devoted to climate change frequently appeared. 1 There has been a considerable amount of scholarship on climate

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Section: Current Scholarship On Contemporary British and Irish Climat...mentioning

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Section: Current Scholarship On Contemporary British and Irish Climat...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate change in contemporary British and Irish poetry and poetic criticism: Literary representation and environmental activism

Xie

2022

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“A Peremptory Adieu to Biodiversicals”: Ecological Decline and Experimentation in Peter Reading’s -273,15

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2022

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil Ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi

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Peter Reading (1946-2011), pronounced as “the unofficial laureate of a decaying nation, Junk Britain” by Tom Paulin, has always been concerned with environmental deterioration, climate change, and decline of the species in many of his work from the 70s onwards. His poems of the new millennium advocate a more robust critique of the neo-liberal economic systems and human beings’ involvement in the current ecological crisis. Reading’s -273,15, [Absolute Zero], revisits his decades-long efforts to experiment with various poetic forms, registers and a grief-stricken tone presiding over most of his previous work with his suspicion of human language to convey the complexities of anthropocenic experience. Reading’s text combines his efforts not only to experiment with various poetic and non-poetic materials, registers, but also look for ways to cope with an approaching catastrophe. The verbal and visual collage pieces as the most frequently employed procedures in Reading’s poetry draw his poetry closer to the ‘entropological register’ Skinner puts forward and bring together the sources to show how Reading’s environmental agenda is conscious of its shortcomings. Drawing on Lynn Keller’s recent work on ecopoetics and the concept of the “self-conscious Anthropocene,” this paper aims to explore how Reading’s ecological agenda and experimental practices in -273,15 might forge an improved understanding of the connections between contemporary poetry and environmental justice.

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Calls in the Desert: Peter Reading’s Climate Change Poetry

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Climate change in contemporary British and Irish poetry and poetic criticism: Literary representation and environmental activism

Climate change in contemporary British and Irish poetry and poetic criticism: Literary representation and environmental activism

“A Peremptory Adieu to Biodiversicals”: Ecological Decline and Experimentation in Peter Reading’s -273,15

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