ORCID
- Mandy Bloomfield: 0000-0003-1035-9669
Abstract
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.
DOI Link
Publication Date
2019-01-01
Publication Title
Configurations
Volume
27
Issue
4
ISSN
1063-1801
Acceptance Date
2018-11-06
Embargo Period
2019-12-03
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Bloomfield, M. (2019) 'Widening Gyre: A Poetics of Ocean Plastics', Configurations, 27(4). Available at: 10.1353/con.2019.0033
