The gannet’s skull versus the plastic doll’s head: material ‘value’ in Kathleen Jamie’s ‘Findings’

Marland, Pippa

doi:10.1080/14688417.2015.1024156

Green Letters

2015

DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2015.1024156

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The gannet’s skull versus the plastic doll’s head: material ‘value’ in Kathleen Jamie’s ‘Findings’

Pippa Marland

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“…The (Buell, 1989;Morton, 2010;Marland & Parham, 2014;Marland, 2015). More broadly, the thinking of Donna Haraway (2016) and Anna Tsing et al (2017), has usefully undergirded the ways in which some settler environmental-activist poets determinedly evoke 'agentic assemblages' in creative artefacts, or 'kinships' with the 'natural world' that de-emphasise anthropogenic hierarchies [9].…”

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Writing ecological disfigurement: First Nations poetry after ‘the black grass of bitumen’

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2021

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This article examines selected First Nations poetries, showing how intertextual parodic language strategies, dynamic elegy and polyphonic poetic registers critique proleptic environmental mourning, simplistic environmental apocalypticism and compromised visions of political reconciliation -'all this potplanting in our sovereignty', as Evelyn Araluen (2020b, p. 81) describes it. Alison Whittaker, Jeanine Leane, Evelyn Araluen, Ellen van Neerven, Alexis Wright and others are also shown as inheritors of the environmental-activist poetries of Oodgeroo, Kevin Gilbert and Lionel Fogarty. I analyse how each of these poets represents Country in a 'permanently disfigured state' (Daniels & Lorimer, 2012, p. 5), bearing witness to environments that exist after settler 'nature', dismantling Western theologies of poetic nature alongside. To wit, I also show how poems assert temporal vantage points outside the linear telos and material endgames of extractive colonial time, reinforcing enduring and intrinsic spiritual fealty with Country, community and 'ancestor time'. In Ali Cobby Eckermann's words, 'These poems are taking the time. They are honouring the story' (2020, p. 147).

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Organic metaphor as mutual agency in The Rainbow

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Gleaning and Dreaming on Car Park Beach

Croft

2018

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This article explores beachcombing and gleaning as practices that combine mobility with daydreaming and which allow us to experience our environment with the perception of 'tactile nearness' (Benjamin). Through eco-poetics shaped by 'inconceivable analogies and connections' (Benjamin), the author re-imagines a neglected space used as a short-cut on the way to work-the Liverpool Adelphi car park in Liverpool-as "Car Park Beach". Inspired by the situationists' slogan 'Sous les pavés, la plage', the author argues that Car Park Beach opens up imaginative possibilities for a different form of ecological encounter with our own precarity, one ushered in by a 'close-up' awareness of how waste transforms our world. Car Park Beach is a site that the author associates with the drift-like, distracted movements of both people and matter, and this article therefore attempts to deploy an equivalent method of analysis. Drawing on her own practice of gleaning photos and objects on the way to work, the author places a vocabulary of flotsam and jetsam at the axis of her discussion. Allusive, often layered, connections are followed between a diverse range of sources including beachcombing guides, literary memoirs, documentary films, eco-criticism, and auto-ethnography.

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The gannet’s skull versus the plastic doll’s head: material ‘value’ in Kathleen Jamie’s ‘Findings’

Cited by 3 publications

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Writing ecological disfigurement: First Nations poetry after ‘the black grass of bitumen’

Writing ecological disfigurement: First Nations poetry after ‘the black grass of bitumen’

Organic metaphor as mutual agency in The Rainbow

Gleaning and Dreaming on Car Park Beach

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