Anna Stenning

Research student

Institute of Humanities & Creative Arts

Contact Details

email: a.stenning@worc.ac.uk

tel: 01905 85 5518

Teaching & Research

My primary research area is early 20th Century poetry, specifically the nature poetry of Edward Thomas and Robert Frost (between 1914 and 1917). As well as tracing the emergence of modernist poetic forms and themes in this period, I am interested in contemporary nature poetry, comparative literature, ecopoetry, wilderness and nature writing. My motivation is to consider how literature represents and potentially affects our relationship and care for the non-human environment. With this broader interest in literary treatments of place and environment, I explore the overlaps between cultural geography, ecology and literary criticism.

Professional Bodies

ASLE-UKI

BAAS

Publications

Co-Guest Editing Green Letters 17 (Winter 2012).

'East Coast meets East Anglia: Richard Mabey and the emergence of the voice-driven narrative in British nature writing', Green Letters 7 (Winter 2012).

Event review of talk at Ledbury Poetry Festival, by Matthew Hollis, Friends of the Dymock Poets Newsletter (Summer 2011).

Review of Now All Roads Lead to France, by Matthew Hollis, and Edward Thomas: Selected Poems, also by Matthew Hollis, Friends of the Dymock Poets Newsletter (Winter 2011).

'A "Bioregional" Vision in the Poetry and Prose of Edward Thomas', in English and Welsh Diaspora (University of Loughborough, late 2012/early 2013).

External Responsibilities

Editorial Assistant for Green Letters.

Committee member of Friends of the Dymock Poets.