Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley
Niall Lucy and John Kinsella
Abstract
John Kinsella is known internationally as the acclaimed author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, but in tandem with — and often directly through — his creative and critical work, Kinsella is also a prominent activist. In this book the vegan anarchist pacifist poet claims that poetry can act as a vital form of resistance to a variety of social and ethical ills, in particular ecological damage and abuse. Kinsella builds on his earlier notion of ‘linguistic disobedience’ evolving out of civil disobedience, and critiques the figurative qualities of his poems in a context of resistance ... More
Keywords: John Kinsella, poetry, prose, activism, anarchism, pacifism, veganism, ecological poetics, linguistic disobedience, resistance
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9781846314698 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: June 2013 | DOI:10.5949/UPO9781846316142 |
