Ecopoetics of Agency

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Alice Oswald
animal studies
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D. H. Lawrence
ecocriticism
environmental humanities
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Kathleen Jamie
Les Murray
Marianne Moore
Modernism
modernist poetry
New Materialism
Pattiann Rogers
posthumanism
Wallace Stevens

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  • ISBN 9781350528369
  • Weight: 500g
  • Dimensions: 158 x 236mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Feb 2026
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Focusing on a category of poems from the Modernist and contemporary periods which give agency to nonhuman beings and texts themselves, Sarah Bouttier puts form, often neglected within ecocriticism, at the center of the definition of ecopoetics.

Grounding ecopoetics in posthumanist ontologies (new materialism, flat ontology and Latour’s work on agency), Bouttier explores how the poems collapse the human/nonhuman divide and re-instil wonder at the nonhuman world.

By juxtaposing readings of Modernist poets such as D. H. Lawrence, Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore with contemporary poets such as Les Murray, Pattiann Rogers, Alice Oswald and Kathleen Jamie, the book provides fresh insight into well-known works and offers a new perspective on contemporary ecopoetry.

Sarah Bouttier is an Assistant Professor of English at École polytechnique, France and a member of PRISMES (Sorbonne Nouvelle, France). Her research interests include literature and the environment, art and science, posthumanism, ecofeminism, poetry and speculative fiction.

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