22 October 2015, 6.30-8 pm, free.
The Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Canongate, EH8 8DT
The Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Canongate, EH8 8DT
Many modern Scottish poets have
explored ideas of identity and belonging in relation to natural environments,
often stressing ideas of sustainability and interdependence. At our third event
we will think about contemporary Scottish poetry and ecology. Poet and critic
Samantha Walton will discuss ecological thinking in Scottish literature from the early-twentieth-century novels of Nan Shepherd to contemporary small press publishing, while David Farrier will explore Kathleen Jamie's creative response to JA Baker's seminal work of nature writing, The Peregrine.
David Farrier: "'As seen by a hawk’: Kathleen Jamie and JA Baker"
Kathleen Jamie's Findings was
among the first in a wave of recent works which have engaged with, and
rehabilitated, JA Baker's seminal work of nature writing,The Peregrine.
I will consider Jamie's readings of Baker, and in particular what these reveal
about human and animal relations, current concerns over endangerment and
extinction, and the status of metaphor in contemporary nature writing.
Biographical Note
David Farrier is a Senior Lecturer in
the Department of English at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of
books on colonial Pacific travel writing (Unsettled Narratives, 2007)
and the representation of asylum seekers in contemporary literature and film (Postcolonial
Asylum, 2011). His recently written about Edward Thomas, Alice Oswald,
contemporary environmental theatre, postcolonial 'ecogothic,' and ecological
detective fiction. He is currently working on a book-length study of deep time in
contemporary poetry. Dr Farrier convenes the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities
Network.
Samantha Walton: "The Quiet Generosity of the Visible and Tangible World: Scottish Poetry and Writing the Non-Human"
This talk will focus on ecological thinking in Scottish poetry from Nan Shepherd to contemporary small press publishing, in particular writing on human engagements with the non-human world: plant life, soil and water.
Biographical Note
Samantha Walton in Lecturer in English Literature, Writing and the Environment at Bath Spa University. In 2016, Samantha will be an Environmental Humanities Research Fellow ar IASH, University of Edinburgh. Her new research brings environmental and health humanities methodologies to the study of landscape, ecology, and psychology in literature from the interwar period to contemporary New Nature Writing, with particular focus on the work of Nan Shepherd. Her First Monograph, Guilty But Insane: Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction, was published by OUP in 2015.
Samantha Walton: "The Quiet Generosity of the Visible and Tangible World: Scottish Poetry and Writing the Non-Human"
This talk will focus on ecological thinking in Scottish poetry from Nan Shepherd to contemporary small press publishing, in particular writing on human engagements with the non-human world: plant life, soil and water.
Biographical Note
Samantha Walton in Lecturer in English Literature, Writing and the Environment at Bath Spa University. In 2016, Samantha will be an Environmental Humanities Research Fellow ar IASH, University of Edinburgh. Her new research brings environmental and health humanities methodologies to the study of landscape, ecology, and psychology in literature from the interwar period to contemporary New Nature Writing, with particular focus on the work of Nan Shepherd. Her First Monograph, Guilty But Insane: Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction, was published by OUP in 2015.
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