Meadowbook

Visionary intervention in ecopoetics from a leading UK experimentalist.

Meadowbook is restless overgrowth in the lyric domain: an ecopoetic experiment, a cross-pollination of forms, an impossible arcadia for the digital age. A narrator finds herself impregnated by a tree, a group of friends conduct psychedelic eclogues at Ponyhenge, Bambi is revamped as trauma response for internet coquettes, grasses grow, balloons released.

Poet-scholar Maria Sledmere explores the cultural mediation of 'nature', the deep entanglements of human and nonhuman animals, plants, and trees; it seeks commoning in blogs and nightclubs, glitches cottagecore's bucolic kitsch, and sings earnestly and yearningly for a gentler world. Blending the intimacy of a pillow book with the rigour of a fractal field guide, this collection channels the emotional currents of climate crisis as they resonate through language and the body.

Meadowbook asks: what does it mean to think with the meadow as a real and abstract ecosystem? A made place, an inner place, an im/possible outside to the endless ensnaring of techno-capitalism?