The guide to being bear aware
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 27-13-1426
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Shearsman Books
- ISBN
- 9781848615380
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Additional information
- IIncorporating a range of reflections drawn from philosophical and literary research, notably from the great European poets of the 20th century, The Guide to Being Bear Aware brings avant-garde ideas into dialogue with contemporary concerns, interrogating the political and moral factionalism which dominates online existence; the evaporation of privacy and historical belonging; and the sense of human ephemerality that comes in the face of ecological crisis and climate change. A complex sense of dialogue is a core feature of Fowler’s ongoing research practice: it is rooted in the notion of collaboration and exemplified in poetry performances and events such as Poet Brut and The Enemies Project which have brought together poets from across Europe to co-create and curate new work. In this collection, dialogue is supplemented by research into formalist estrangement and deconstruction to offer insights into ecological thinking by elaborating modes of interconnection through ironically subjective forms. As fluid modes of human-animal, interspecies and environmental engagement, each poem’s perspective eschews a traditionally poetic ego and criticises contemporary human arrogance towards history, the planet, and fellow animal beings. Poems from the collection have been performed at Swedenborg Hall, Bloomsbury, and been translated into Dutch and Hungarian
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