In this episode of the Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene Podcast, Kate Brelje interviews Dr. Emma Trott about her work on plant poetry and ecocriticism. For more information about Trott's work, see her University of Leeds profile here: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/1204/dr-emma-trott. You can also find her on Twitter by her handle @emma_trott. Also, look for her forthcoming book with Routledge entitled Contemporary British Ecopoetics: Creatures, Materiality, Environment, coming out in 2024. For her earlier work on plant poetics, check out "Contiguous Creatures: Literary Ecology, 'Organic Poetry' and Jon Silkin's Flower Poems" in Anglistik and "Creative Ecologies: Derek Walcott’s Postcolonial Ecopoetics" in FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts. She also works on poetry with medical humanities perspectives in her current project on the heart.
Texts mentioned in this episode include: Kathryn Parsley's "Plant Awareness Disparity" (https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ppp3.10153), Daisy Hildyard's Emergency, Michael Marder's "Is It Ethical to Eat Plants?", Jon Silkin's Flower Poems, and Thylias Moss' "Interpretation of a Poem by Frost."
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The music piece is kindly offered to us by artist Mileece. You can find her work at: www.mileece.is
Special thanks to steering committee member Joe Culhane for creating the podcast image.
