What is it about?
In exploring several poems from Don McKay's Strike/Slip (2006) and from JohnTerpstra’s poetry about the World Biosphere Reserve of the Niagara Escarpment, I consider how geopoetry reads time past, present, and future through encounters with rock, guiding us through astonishment to future possibility.
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Why is it important?
These poets explore the strained but creative relationship between landscape and language, and specifically between geology and ‘poetry as a reader of deep time.’
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This page is a summary of: Reading Deep Time: Contemporary Canadian Geopoetry, Green Letters, December 2024, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2024.2437742.
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