Writing on Sheep - by William Welstead (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An animal studies and ecocritical approach to poetry on sheep in the context of agro-pastoral societies and environmental crisis.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Sheep are marginalised in literary criticism and in discussion of pastoral literature. This book brings an animal studies approach to poetry about sheep that allows for the agency of these sentient beings, that have been associated for humans over ten thousand years. This approach highlights the distinction between wild and domesticated species and the moral dilemma between the goals of animal welfare and those of saving species from extinction. Discussion of mostly contemporary poetry follows a new reading of works from the pastoral and georgic canon. Allowing for the sentience and sociality of this species makes it easier to imagine a natureculture within which to make kin across the species boundary. <i>Reading poetry about sheep</i> has the power to make new meanings as we try to adapt to an increasingly complex and problematic environment.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Domesticated sheep are at the frontline of the current environmental crisis, but are poorly represented in literature and in literary criticism. This book focuses on poetry about sheep in an effort to redress their under representation in the pastoral canon, and the undue emphasis in ecocriticism on place and wildness, at the expense of domesticated animals and their commensal relationships with humans. The metaphorical potential of writing on parchment made from sheepskin, where the text is silent on animals, is drawn on to read the empty space between the lines of contemporary poetry to foreground sheep and how humans relate to other species. The book explores, but does not resolve, contentious issues such as meat eating, wild versus domestic animals and naturalistic grazing as an alternative to rewilding. It also follows English speaking settlers and their sheep to the New World, to read some works from a postcolonial perspective. The problematic role of sheep as contributors to global heating and loss of biodiversity is raised to question what part they, and also poets, have to play in the complex world we face. <i>Writing on sheep</i> contributes to the growing interest in animals in the environmental humanities and in the 'animal turn' in studies of literary texts.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>William Welstead is an independent scholar based on the Isle of Tiree
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