Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction: Poetry and science -- Undermining Nature's solid ground -- Welcome to the Anthropocene -- The form of ecology -- The evolution...
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction: Poetry and science -- Undermining Nature's solid ground -- Welcome to the Anthropocene -- The form of ecology -- The evolution of Ted Hughes -- Derek Mahon's ironic ecology -- Rematerialising Prynne -- 1. Evolving systems of (eco)poetry -- A non-local habitation and a name -- Anthropos kainos - technology and the posthuman -- Ecologies of mind: communicating ecosystems and systems of communication -- Poetics in the Anthropocene 2. 'Life subdued to its instrument': Hughes, mutation and technology -- Fishing: adaptation and contact -- Living form and posthuman adaptation -- Science, religion and the environmental revolution -- Violence and technology -- Crow: evolving myth/mythologising evolution -- Hatching a crow: mutation and poetry -- Testing his metal -- 3. 'Germinal ironies': Changing climates in the poetry of Derek Mahon -- 'Rage for order': ironies of time and place -- A 'chaos of complex systems': economy and ecology -- Beautiful souls and simulative politics -- Climate change and a new look at Life on Earth Pious hopes -- 4. The resistant materials of Jeremy Prynne -- Coal and metal: conditions of landscape and questions concerning technology -- Pertinent junk and the sound of information -- The secret lives of plants and viruses -- Mutating code scripts -- Wasted fields and digested hydrocarbons -- This difficult matter -- Conclusion: Evolution, agency and feedback at the end of a world -- The life of the poets -- Feedback loops -- Index
