Stuart Cooke Stuart Cooke i(A76472 works by)
Born: Established: 1980 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon The Grass Is Greener Over Your Grave Stuart Cooke , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2023 26220258 2023 selected work poetry

'If Cooke’s previous book, Lyre, urged us towards the ‘more’ of the more-than-human world, then The grass is greener over your grave returns to the ‘human’ end of that spectrum—though always with an eye to the porosity of the human and its immersion in waves of land, language, dream, and sea. Typically wide-ranging in form, this new collection develops Cooke’s preoccupations with colonisation, ecology, metaphysics, and travel, while also acknowledging their heritage in the life and work of the late poet Martin Harrison.' (Publication summary)

1 Antecedent i "The circling hawk goes so high that it turns", Stuart Cooke , 2023 single work
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 80 2023; (p. 107-109)
1 1 y separately published work icon Land Art Stuart Cooke , Tamborine : Calanthe Press , 2022 25069335 2022 selected work poetry
1 To Escape, to Return: an Homage to Sergio Pitol Stuart Cooke , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 34 2022;
1 Geoterritorial Island Poetics, or Transcultural Composition with a Wetland in Southern Chile Stuart Cooke , Juan Paulo Huirimilla Oyarzo , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transcultural Ecocriticism : Global, Romantic and Decolonial Perspectives 2021;
1 Thinking about Transcultural Ecocriticism: Space, Scale and Translation Stuart Cooke , Peter Denney , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transcultural Ecocriticism : Global, Romantic and Decolonial Perspectives 2021;
1 Edge, Hold i "it has a depth that keeps going—", Stuart Cooke , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , November vol. 8 no. 1 2021;
1 1 y separately published work icon Transcultural Ecocriticism : Global, Romantic and Decolonial Perspectives Stuart Cooke (editor), Peter Denney (editor), New York (City) : Bloomsbury Academic , 2021 25542709 2021 anthology criticism

'Bringing together decolonial, Romantic and global literature perspectives, Transcultural Ecocriticism explores innovative new directions for the field of environmental literary studies. By examining these literatures across a range of geographical locations and historical periods – from Romantic period travel writing to Chinese science fiction and Aboriginal Australian poetry – the book makes a compelling case for the need for ecocriticism to competently translate between Indigenous and non-Indigenous, planetary and local, and contemporary and pre-modern perspectives. Leading scholars from Australasia and North America explore links between Indigenous knowledges, Romanticism, globalisation, avant-garde poetics and critical theory in order to chart tensions as well as affinities between these discourses in a variety of genres of environmental representation, including science fiction, poetry, colonial natural history and oral narrative.' (Publication summary)

1 Tierra Weather i "all along the coast, the boom", Stuart Cooke , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 40 no. 3 2021; (p. 28)
1 Midday at Tin Can Bay i "Gliding down through Gubbi Gubbi country", Stuart Cooke , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 40 no. 3 2021; (p. 28)
1 By the Esk i "passes through them, climbs over it, shuffles", Stuart Cooke , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 80 no. 4 2021;
1 Extending the Blue Track i "We'd thought it would take a lot longer", Stuart Cooke , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 162 2021; (p. 18-19)
1 Writing Toward and With : Ethological Poetics and Nonhuman Lives Stuart Cooke , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: A/b : Auto/Biography Studies , vol. 35 no. 1 2020; (p. 63-79)

'In this essay, the author argues that the appreciation of nonhuman poetic forms, or an “ethological poetics,” is a necessary but neglected mode of ecological relation, and is especially important in the Anthropocene. Motivated by his own creative practice—in particular, the composition of Lyre, a book of poems about different animals, plants, and landforms—he considers important examples of ethologically attentive poetics before outlining how his compositional method attempts to incorporate insights from the environmental humanities and animal studies. Rather than insisting on their essential difference from human worlds, the author argues for an attentive, ethical, and imaginative engagement with nonhuman lives, through which surprising and unusual forms of poetry might emerge.' (Publication abstract)

1 Anamnesis i "All frames blur into tuberous linkage,", Stuart Cooke , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , June no. 30 2020; (p. 74-82)
1 1 About Lin Stuart Cooke , 2020 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Verity La , May 2020;
1 Coming Back to This City i "The thing is that until this afternoon I could have been in paradise. I'd seen her a couple of days", Stuart Cooke , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Writ Poetry Review , February no. 4 2020;
1 The Trees i "are probably the largest selves in the forest", Stuart Cooke , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , March vol. 7 no. 1 2020;
1 The Ecological Poetics of Deborah Bird Rose : Analysis and Application Stuart Cooke , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Swamphen : A Journal of Cultural Ecology , no. 7 2020;

'In the essay that follows I outline and then respond to the poetic qualities of Deborah Bird Rose’s thinking. Trained as an anthropologist, Rose was a highly original scholar. She pioneered ecological ethnography by focusing on the links between social and ecological justice, in particular with the Yarralin and Lingarra communities in the Northern Territory, and she is a founding figure in the environmental humanities, multispecies studies and extinction studies. Her sustained interest in poetry and the poetic imagination made her ever aware of the power of ‘deep stories’; Rose wanted always to be close to ‘the cadences of the[ir] poetry’ (Wild Dog 16). Unlike many scholars in the humanities, for whom writing and reading are dominated by genres of prose, references to poetry and to contemporary poets are common in Rose’s work, and her writing regularly gestures towards the poetic. Rose’s work is vital for ecological criticism that attempts to grapple with the drastic cultural and climactic changes of this century, particularly for criticism with decolonising ambitions.' (Introduction)

1 Rail i "Tight velocity through pasture, past", Stuart Cooke , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Stilts , June no. 4 2019;
1 The Morning Fog (A Golden Shovel After Kate Bush) i "is sweetest at the Tropic of Capricorn, the", Stuart Cooke , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 66 2019; (p. 100) Writ Poetry Review , February no. 4 2020; Australian Poetry Anthology 2020; (p. 55)
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