Geopoetics in Practice

<p>This breakthrough book examines dynamic intersections of poetics and geography. Gathering the essays of an international cohort whose work converges at the crossroads of poetics and the material world <i>Geopoetics in Practice</i> offers insights into poetry place ecology and writing the world through a critical-creative geographic lens.</p><p>This collection approaches geopoetics as a practice by bringing together contemporary geographers poets and artists who contribute their research methodologies and creative writing. The 24 chapters divided into the sections “Documenting” “Reading” and “Intervening” poetically engage discourses about space power difference and landscape as well as about human non-human and more-than-human relationships with Earth. Key explorations of this edited volume include how poets engage with geographical phenomena through poetry and how geographers use creativity to explore space place and environment. </p><p>This book makes a major contribution to the geohumanities and creative geographies by presenting geopoetics as a practice that compels its agents to take action. It will appeal to academics and students in the fields of creative writing literature geography and the environmental and spatial humanities as well as to readers from outside of the academy interested in where poetry and place overlap.</p>