Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, The Grassling

Helen Rachel Cousins (Newman University)

Ed. by Jenni Ramone, The Nottingham Trent University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication Mar 2019 - Mar 2019

Places

United Kingdom (Publication/ performance; Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

The Grassling (2019) is a “nature memoir” (Pollard 2020) inspired by the Devonshire landscape around the village of Ide where the author, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, was born and raised. Burnett is a poet and academic whose critical and creative writing focuses on nature and the environment. Her experimental poetry has appeared in several anthologies and she has published a poetry volume, Swims (Penned in the Margins 2017), which was a Sunday Times Best Poetry Book of the Year.

Subtitled “A Geological Memoir”, The Grassling deviates from human-centred life writing to encapsulate the geological biography of the land; the history of the people who have lived and worked …

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Citation: Cousins, Helen Rachel. "The Grassling". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 April 2020 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38964, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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