Recent Posts
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...
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...
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,...
I am the Universe: Winning Poems
The British Romantic Writing and Environmental Catastrophe project collaborated with The Poetry Society’s Young Poets Network to produce ‘I am...
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...
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...
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....
There’s a Planet Outside the Text—Notes toward a Deep Historicism
In the first of our Romantic Climates blog posts, Professor Gillen D’Arcy Wood (Illinois) reflects on Deep Time and the...