Aftermath: Thinking and Healing with Grass in Contemporary Poetry

Corfield Carr, Holly (2025) Aftermath: Thinking and Healing with Grass in Contemporary Poetry. In: Cambridge Handbook of Literature and Plants. Cambridge University Press, pp. 213-230. ISBN 9781108837736

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Abstract

This chapter attends to the regular presence of grass in poetry of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From Walt Whitman and English war poetry to recent work by Oswald and Burnett, the poetry of grass works to articulate, obscure, and heal the marks of contemporary trauma. Grass also shapes the soundscapes and visual form of poetry to the extent that, as this chapter suggests, grass can be said to constitute the contemporary practice of composition itself. Like poetry, the green field works in and through trauma to find again new life after war and conquest, after personal loss. In its seemingly perpetual growing, grass finds in the poet new ways of making and responding.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	literature,grass,nature writing,poetry,ecopoetics
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	17 Oct 2024 15:30
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2025 02:26
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/97056
DOI:	10.1017/9781108942690.014

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