The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics offers a comprehensive coverage of the vital and growing movement of ecopoetics, charting the historical influences informing ecopoetics, delineating its various subdivisions, and presenting a global range of established figures and emerging scholarly debates. This volume begins with a general introduction to the field, followed by three major sections: Historical Contexts and Influences; Scalar Levels of Poetic Engagement, ranging from global through regional, terrain-oriented, local, and microscopic; and Intersections, examining poetic encounters with science, critical animal studies, philosophy, ethnobotany, environmental justice, visual and performing arts, disability studies, spirituality and ritual, and translation. The innovative second section will facilitate a comprehensive and systems-based sequencing, including ecopoetic engagements with topics including climate change, deforestation, extinction, pollution, toxicity, and disasters; fieldwork and close observation, and chemistry as it relates to environments including the human body. Each section will feature a broad overview and detailed consideration of poiesis, with reference to specific texts. The brand new essays in this book represent a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and critical approaches exploring the interdisciplinary field of ecopoetics. Glossaries and cross-references will facilitate the volume's usefulness alongside its global, interdisciplinary breadth to establish The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics as a landmark textbook and reference for a variety of researchers and students.
About the Author: Julia Fiedorczuk is a poet, writer, translator, lecturer at the Institute of English Studies and a cofounder of the Environmental Studies Center at Warsaw University. She created the program for the experimental School of Ecopoetics at the Institute of Reportage in Warsaw. She has published several poetry books, the last of which, Psalms (2017), received the Szymborska Prize, Poland's most prestigious award for poetry, as well as three novels, short stories and essays in ecocriticism, including Ekopoetyka / Ecopoética / Ecopoetics (with Gerardo Beltrán, Warsaw, 2015). Her work has been translated into over 20 languages, including books in English, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Chinese and Georgian.
Mary Newell authored the poetry chapbooks Re-SURGE and TILT/ HOVER/ VEER, poems in journals and anthologies, and essays including "When Poetry Rivers" (Interim journal 38.3). She is co-editor of Poetics for the More-than-Human-World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary. She teaches creative writing at the University of Connecticut.
Bernard Quetchenbach is the author of Back from the Far Field, a study of twentieth century American poetry, two poetry collections, and two chapbooks. His essay collection Accidental Gravity was a finalist and honorable mention in the 2017 Foreword Indies Book of the Year contest. "The Man by the Fire," his meditation on a Gary Snyder poem, was selected as the 2019 winner of the O. Marvin Lewis award from Weber: The Contemporary West. He edited The Bunch Grass Motel: The Collected Poems of Randall Gloege, a 2018 High Plains Book Awards finalist. With Mary Newell and Sarah Nolan, he edited Poetics for the More-Than-Human World, an anthology of poetry and commentary from several continents. He was an Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Artist-in-Residence in the Custer-Gallatin National Forest in 2015, and a workshop leader for the Yellowstone Forever/National Park Service Arts-in-the Park program in 2017. He is a professor of English at Montana State University Billings, where he teaches literature, environmental humanities, composition, and creative writing.
Orchid Tierney is an assistant professor of English at Kenyon College. She is the author of the collection a year of misreading the wildcats (The Operating System, 2019).
