"Examines the representation of landscape in the poetry of John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, Robin Robertson and Kenneth White. With an exciting and provocative approach to the reading of landscape and the non-human world in the work of four major...
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"Examines the representation of landscape in the poetry of John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, Robin Robertson and Kenneth White. With an exciting and provocative approach to the reading of landscape and the non-human world in the work of four major Scottish poets, this groundbreaking book merges phenomenology and ecocritical literary criticism. It explores these poets' organic, intimate interrelation between the self and the world, their relationship to the landscape and connection with nature"--Back cover
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Wandering in the Open World: Kenneth White's Poetics; 2. 'Buried in the flesh': Home, Embodiment, and Interanimality in John Burnside's Work; 3. 'Gifts of the Wild': Dwelling, Temporality, and Landscape in Kathleen Jamie's Writing; 4. 'A word will set the seed / of life and death': Robin Robertson's Protean Lyric; Bibliography; Index.
