Daniel Eltringham

 

Praise

“Original, rigorous and timely, this book puts Romantic-era poetry into fruitful dialogue with post-war and contemporary British avant-garde poetry. In doing so, Eltringham reveals why the figure of the commons might matter now more than ever, in the face of market-driven, neoliberal forms of enclosure, entwined with ecological crisis. [Poetry & Commons] compellingly demonstrates how we can use historical knowledge in the contemporary moment by tracing the ways in which recent poets revisit, revise and revivify ideas of the commons and practices of commoning.”

2023 ASLE-UKI Book Prize judges’ verdict

“Through meticulous, expansive research and illuminating close readings, this original and richly layered study constitutes poetry as a space of witness and resistance.”

Mandy Bloomfield, Review of English Studies

“[Poetry & Commons] marshals an eloquent and superbly researched argument, covering the literary and social implications of the issues and controversies involved in land use […] mak[ing] a genuinely significant intervention in current debates.”

Roger Ebbatson, Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism

“The lines of poetic language that Daniel Eltringham traces here are invaluable for ecopoetics and our understanding of the poetries and politics of the land […] a book that inspires us to invest anew in traditions of resistance in relation to place and politics.”

Harriet Tarlo, Professor of Ecopoetry and Poetics

“An excellent, highly original, and necessary study of poetry and radical thought […] Poetry & Commons makes anew the case for thinking about lyric in the neoliberal era.”

David Farrier, Professor of Literature and the Environment, University of Edinburgh

“Few critics have so precisely articulated the conceptual range with which the commons is necessarily entangled […] Poetry & Commons constitutes a major expansion of our understanding of the literary commons.”

Stephen Collis, Professor of English, Simon Fraser University

 

Academic Writing

With Fred Carter. “Militant Ecologies: Introduction” and “Riotous Translation, Counterinsurgent Climates: A Critical Postface.” “Militant Ecologies,” Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, ed. Carter and Eltringham (2023/24).

“‘i wish i were my / self – mexican’: Tom Raworth and Mexico.’” College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies (2023).

With David Walker Barker, “Searching for Jossie: surface and substratum in the layered landscape of Langsett and Midhope.” Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (2019).

“Commoning nostalgia: making ‘Romantic sensibility sustainable’ in contemporary poetry.” Futures Worth Preserving: Cultural Constructions of Nostalgia and Sustainability. Ed. Andressa Schroeder and Tom Clucas (Transcript Press, 2019).

“Growing food on the green world: J. H. Prynne’s agro-chemical pastoral in the vale of Tintern.” Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (2018).

“Shifting vantage, common musings: the politics of Wordsworthian excursus in the poetry of Peter Riley.” Textual Practice (2018).

 

Features & Reviews

With Fred Carter. “Riotous Translation, Counterinsurgent Climates.” Tripwire: a journal of poetics #19: Don’t say “Rest in Peace,” say Fuck the Police: A Sean Bonney Tribute Portfolio (2023).

“Translating the Erotic Left: On Ana María Rodas.” Hopscotch Translation (20 Sept 2022).

“The last cigarette.” Review of Anthropocene Poetics by David Farrier. Criticism (2021).

“L-U-C-H-A; or, Stick that in your shooter: Slinger’s Palabra de Guerrillero.” Lana Tuner: a journal of poetry & opinion (2021).

“Translator’s note: Alonso Quesada’s Scattered Ways.” Poetry Wales (2019).

With Abi Goodman. “Path & Present: A Poetics of Trespass in the Footsteps of Sheffield’s Clarion Ramblers.” Dostoyevsky Wannabe Cities: Sheffield. Ed. Emma Bolland (2019).

“Mexican Democracy” (“AMLO and Mexican Democracy,” Pluto Press & “¡Sí se pudo!,” London Review of Books, 2018).

Review of Modernist Legacies: Trends and Faultlines in British Poetry Today. Ed. by David Nowell Smith and Abigail Lang. Chicago Review (2017).

“A Travelling Life: Dorothy Richardson’s Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Travel Journals.” John Rylands Library Special Collections Blog (2017).

Review of Late Modernism and The English Intelligencer: on the Poetics of Community by Alex Latter. Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry (2016).

“About Watching: Identification and the Animal.” Glasgow Review of Books, Ecocriticism Now Thread. Ed. Tom White (2015).

“Under/ground: a partial commentary on Oli Hazzard’s Within Habit.” The Literateur (2014).

Review of The Orchid Boat by Lee Harwood. Shearsman Review (2014).

“‘The idea of the bird’: Bird Books, the Problem of Taxonomy and Some Poems by R. F. Langley.” PN Review (2013).

With Natalie Joelle. “‘I stand at the threshold of the gleaning field’: Harvest by Jim Crace,” Dandelion, Ecology special issue (2013).

Interview with Peter Riley. The Literateur (2012).

“Poetry Redux.” The Literateur (2012).

Review of This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz. Fiction Uncovered (2012).

Review of Zbinden’s Progress by Christoph Simon. The Literateur (2012).

Interview with Sean Bonney. The Literateur (2011).

Interview with Juan Pablo Villalobos. The Literateur (2011).

“Present Imperfect.” Banner 1 (2011).

Review of Some Questions on the Cultural Revolution by Alistair Noon. The Literateur (2011).

Review of The Tunnel by Ernesto Sábato. Times Literary Supplement (2011).

Review of The Levelling Sea by Phillip Marsden. Financial Times Books (2011).

Review of Into the Arena by Alex Fiske-Harrison. Financial Times Books (2011).

“Small Talk” interviews with Geraldine Brooks, Ali Smith, Andrew Miller and Miriam Toews. Financial Times Books (2011).

Review of Deep Country by Neil Ansell. The Literateur (2011).

Review of Playing Days by Benjamin Markovits. Fiction Uncovered (2011).

“Open to the World: On The London Review Bookshop’s World Literature Weekend.” The Literateur (2010).

Interview with James Shapiro. The Literateur (2010).

Review of Emergence by Fanny Howe. The Literateur (2010).

Review of Reality Hunger by David Shields. The Literateur (2010).

Interview with Paul Muldoon. The Literateur (2009).

Review of Ashes of the Amazon by Milton Hatoum. The Literateur (2009)

Review of Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. The Literateur (2009).

Keep an eye on…Michael McKimm (interview feature). The Literateur (2009).