The New Poetics of Climate Change: Modernist Aesthetics for a Warming World

Environmental Cultures

by Matthew Griffiths, Greg Garrard (Series Editor), Richard Kerridge (Series Editor)

Climate change is the greatest issue of our time – and yet too often literature on the subject is considered only in the bracket of 'environmental' writing, divorced from culture, society and politics. The New Poetics of Climate Change argues instead that the emergence of global warming presents a fundamental challenge to the way we read and write poetry – the way we think – in the modern age.

In this important new book, Matthew Griffiths demonstrates that Modernism's radical reinvigorations of literary form over the last century represent an engagement with key intellectual questions that we still need to address if we are to comprehend the scale and complexity of climate change. Through an extended examination of Modernist poetry, including the work of T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Basil Bunting and David Jones, and their influence on present-day poets including Jorie Graham, Griffiths explores how Modernist modes can help us describe and engage with the terrifying dynamics of a warming world and offer a poetics of our climate.

224 pages, Hardcover

Published July 27, 2017

About the author

Matthew Griffiths was born in Birmingham, and worked in London as an editor for ten years before moving to Durham, where he completed a PhD on climate change and modernist poetics.
His poems have appeared in small press magazines, and his stories in Doctor Who: Short Trips anthologies. A science fiction novel, The Weather on Versimmon, was published by Big Finish in 2012.

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