TY - JOUR
T1 - Widening Gyre: A Poetics of Ocean Plastics
AU - Bloomfield, Mandy
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - By focusing on contemporary experimental poetry that engages with ocean plastics, this essay explores the capacity of ecopoetics to make distinctive interventions in the environmental humanities, and in particular the blue humanities. It examines work by Stephen Collis, Adam Dickinson, and Evelyn Reilly to show how poetry’s forms of juxtaposition, linkage, linguistic porosity, indeterminacy, and nonnarrative temporalities suggest fertile modes of cultural engagement with the more-than-human oceans. This poetry cultivates amplified modes of attention to more-than-human scales of space, time, agency, and modes of relation, and it performs highly material ways of understanding historical, economic, and aesthetic forces affecting the oceans.
AB - By focusing on contemporary experimental poetry that engages with ocean plastics, this essay explores the capacity of ecopoetics to make distinctive interventions in the environmental humanities, and in particular the blue humanities. It examines work by Stephen Collis, Adam Dickinson, and Evelyn Reilly to show how poetry’s forms of juxtaposition, linkage, linguistic porosity, indeterminacy, and nonnarrative temporalities suggest fertile modes of cultural engagement with the more-than-human oceans. This poetry cultivates amplified modes of attention to more-than-human scales of space, time, agency, and modes of relation, and it performs highly material ways of understanding historical, economic, and aesthetic forces affecting the oceans.
UR - https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/context/sc-research/article/1128/viewcontent/Widening_20Gyre_20article_20Bloomfield_20revised2.pdf
U2 - 10.1353/con.2019.0033
DO - 10.1353/con.2019.0033
M3 - Article
SN - 1063-1801
VL - 27
JO - Configurations
JF - Configurations
IS - 4
ER -
