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Commissioned Poem by Helen Mort: 'The Library of Ice'
As part of our collaboration with Helen Mort and the Poetry Society on the 'I am the Universe' competition, we commissioned a poem from Helen...
Conference Proceedings: Mediating Climate Change
Lucy Rowland (Leeds) reports on the Mediating Climate Change conference that took place in Leeds, 4-6 July 2017. Taking place during the bicentenary of the global...
Public Events in Leeds, 4-5 July
As part of our conference Mediating Climate Change (4-6 July), we have organised three public events around the themes of literature, art, and environment to take...
Romantic Climates
Romantic Poetry and the Grammar of Weather
In our latest Romantic Climates blog post, Dr Thomas H. Ford (Melbourne) reflects on the statement 'it is raining'. In the second edition of the Works...
Vile Atmospheres and Stagnant Wonders: Clare in the Fens
In our latest Romantic Climates blog post, Dr Erin Lafford (Oxford) writes on John Clare, fenlands, and 'Romantic air'. In his essay ‘The Correspondent Breeze’ (1984), M....
Enduring Darkness: Romantic Visions of Apocalypse
In the second of our Romantic Climates blog posts, Dr Catherine Redford (Oxford) discusses depictions of apocalyptic climate change in Romantic writing. In the Christian tradition, it...