1. Hughes and Ecopoetry.- 2. From Mytholmroyd to Mexborough: Origins of Hughes's Environmental Awareness.- 3. 'Long live the weeds and the wilderness': 'Green' Literary Influences.- 4. Animal Agency, America and Early Environmental Views.- 5. The Environmental Revolution.- 6. Hughes's Farming.- 7. 'Join Water'.- 8. Green Laureate.- 9. Global Environments.- 10. Hunting, Shooting, Fishing - And Conservation?.- Index.
Yvonne Reddick is Research Fellow in Modern English and World Literatures at University of Central Lancashire, UK, and she has previously held a research fellowship at the University of Warwick. She is a poet and scholar of literature and the environment. She won the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Competition and a Northern Writer’s Award in 2016, and her pamphlet Translating Mountains is now available.