19 November 2024, 1-2pm, Arts Seminar Room 9
Dr Robin MacKenzie, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews
Scenes from the Shoormal: Drift Objects in Some Contemporary Scottish Poems
Icelandic archaeologist Þóra Pétursdóttir claims in her 2018 essay ‘Drift’ that ‘the Anthropocene – the “Age of Man” – is in essence an age of drift matter’. In this paper Dr Robin MacKenzie will be looking at the representation of drift objects in some recent texts by Scottish poets such as Kathleen Jamie and Roseanne Watt.