Landscape Poetics Portfolio
- Submitting institution
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Loughborough University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1844
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Creative Writing: Poetry/Critical
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- These three outputs explore poetic representations of British landscape and the experimental practices and research which underpin them. The essay on the contemporary poet, Mark Goodwin, is an enquiry into the poetic forms and methods he has developed in a decade of literary experimentation. Running alongside it is Featherstone’s own creative practice, which is concerned with writing landscape poetry that includes the poet’s own personal experience in/of the landscape, intertextuality, and ideas developed from W.G. Hoskins’ work in local history studies. Both the essay and the poems are part of the drive to examine contemporary landscape poetry, and to develop Featherstone’s own creative practice as distinct from, but related to, that of his contemporaries.
The essay on Goodwin is the first academic study of his poetry. It draws on Featherstone’s interviews with him and on close reading of his work, which is contextualised in terms of the idea of ‘edgelands’ in contemporary British poetry and nature writing. Goodwin’s textual cartography combines description with ‘reading’ in the form of grid references and mappings. The research for Featherstone’s poems also involves close reading, here a range of secondary texts from King Lear to the Battle of Maldon. Quotations from these are juxtaposed with his ‘reading’ of the landscape, its description, toponymy and topography.
Research and practice both focus on ways in which technical and formal experiments inform the poets’ attempts to perceive and represent landscape as a palimpsest of personal and wider human experience.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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