David Farrier Book order

A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils-industrial, chemical, geological-that humans are leaving behind A Times Book of the Year * A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year

"Anthropocene Poetics looks at contemporary anglophone poetry from Anthropocene, Plantationocene, and Multispecies perspectives, and sets out a poetics for thinking about 'geologic intimacy,' the deeply relational reality of 'sacrifice zones,' and processes of kin-making in a time of extinction"

This book investigates how, as postcolonial studies revises its agenda to incorporate twenty-first century concerns, asylum has emerged as a key field of enquiry.

Exploring the intersection of writing and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Pacific, this book analyzes the works of four Western authors—Robert Louis Stevenson, William Ellis, Herman Melville, and Jack London. It examines how their texts assert settler dominance while simultaneously representing Indigenous resistance. By likening the act of writing to building dwellings, the study reveals how these authors manipulate narratives to establish their presence and portray Indigenous cultures as threatening and outside the narrative, highlighting the complex dynamics of cross-cultural encounters.