Creative Ecologies: Derek Walcott’s Postcolonial Ecopoetics

Authors

  • Emma Trott University of Leeds

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.16.524

Abstract

This essay explores the centrality of Derek Walcott’s poetics of nature to his creative imagination. Forensic attention to language illustrates how connections between the mind and its environments engage critical work at the intersection of ecocriticism and postcolonialism. Poetry’s contribution to a resolution of these discourses’ conflicting concerns is revealed, in a fresh analysis of Walcott’s poetic ecology.

Author Biography

  • Emma Trott, University of Leeds
    Emma Trott is in the first year of her PhD at the University of Leeds, where she also completed her undergraduate and MA studies. Her thesis explores creative interactions with the environment in the poetry of Jon Silkin and Simon Armitage. She is also an Editorial Assistant for Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology (JHUP) and Stand (Leeds).

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Published

05-Jun-2013

Issue

No. 16 (2013): Un/Natural Histories

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Articles

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How to Cite

“Creative Ecologies: Derek Walcott’s Postcolonial Ecopoetics”. 2013. FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, no. 16 (June): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.16.524.