Culture, Creativity and Environment: New Environmentalist Criticism is a collection of new work which examines the intersection between philosophy, literature, visual art, film and the environment at a time of environmental crisis. This book is unusual in the way in which the 'imaginative', 'creative', element is privileged, notwithstanding the creativity of rigorous cultural criticism. Genuinely interdisciplinary, this book aims to be inclusive in its discussions of diverse cultural media (different literary genres, art forms and film for instance), which offer thoughtful and...

Including a previously unpublished poem by Ted Hughes, as well as new essays from Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected offers fresh readings and newly available archival research, challenging established views about Hughes's speaking voice, study at Cambridge and the influence of other poets on Hughes's work.

This collection of original essays by an international team of Hughes scholars demonstrates afresh how key contextual and theoretical approaches to the poet's work serve to illuminate the texts. Part I reads Hughes' poems through cultural contexts while Part II examines his work through the frames of a range of literary theories.

My First Summer in the Sierra is the detailed and colourful diary John Muir kept while tending sheep and exploring the wilderness in California's Sierra Nevada mountains in 1869. With a new introduction from Muir authority Terry Gifford, it is an enchanting and informative read for anyone passionate about the natural world and its splendours.

Brings together experts who inform new readings of Ted Hughes's work, with a new awareness of his posthumous importance.

First published in 1912, The Yosemite, by Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher John Muir, gives us the tools to construct a detailed mental map of the Sierra, and leaves us with the resolution to be more compassionate and environmentally mindful.