Terminarchy

France, Angela ORCID: 0000-0001-8308-4868 (2021) Terminarchy. Nine Arches Press. ISBN 978913437176

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Abstract

France’s distinctive new collection of poems,Terminarchy, eloquently considers the troubling terms of existence in an age of climate catastrophe and technological change. How do we negotiate a world where capitalism and greed threaten a fragile earth, where technology seems to promise us connection but might also fuel isolation? Where even finding solace in nature reminds us that the seasons can no longer be trusted? How is human urge and want hastening us towards our own ‘endling’ – and what might it mean to be the ‘last’? In reframing ecopoetics in her own instinctive, radical, lyrical form, France juxtaposes the accelerated, all-consuming speed of contemporary and future times with the ‘longtime’ and ancient, and considers whether, rather than collison-course, there might be a better way to coexist. Where extinction threatens, these wry, alert poems and their eloquent, earthy voices try to find a way through and look for hope.

Item Type:	Book
Additional Information:	Cover artwork © Fumio Obata
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Poetry; poetry collection; nature; humanity; climate; technology
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PR English literature P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR500 Poetry
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Creative Arts
Research Priority Areas:	Creative Practice and Theory
Depositing User:	Anne Pengelly
Date Deposited:	13 Sep 2021 14:29
Last Modified:	31 Aug 2023 08:54
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/10147

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