Sharing Agricultural and Gardening Cultures in Ireland: Writers and Artists

Marie Mianowski, Valérie Morisson (Eds.)

Sharing Agricultural and Gardening Cultures in Ireland: Writers and Artists

ISBN 978-3-98940-095-5, 182 S., 29 Abb., kt., € 32,50 (2025)

(Irish Studies in Europe, Bd. 12)

This volume addresses gardening and agricultural practices rather than the garden as an allegory, a metaphor or a symbol. It celebrates the potentiality of praxis, of pragmatic aesthetics, and the ways gardening or growing plants affect literary and artistic creation. The chapters put to the fore the intimate relations that artists, writers and poets have opened up with the plants and their gardens. They adopt non-extractive, non-exploitative relationships with nature and extend the notion of care to the more-than-human world, in their agricultural and creative practices. Artists and writers addressing the landscape of the Anthropocene are familiar with environmental sciences. On the shelves above their desks stand books by Rachel Carson, Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Natasha Myers and many others. Aware that new attitudes towards nature must translate into new practices and praxis they immerse themselves in gardens, observe vegetal growth and respond to plantness creatively, thereby opening up fruitful dialogues and new ‘correspondences’.

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