Awen Publications

This volume in the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series gathers stories mainly about extreme weather, but includes also some other...

In Rob Latham’s Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction  (2014) the field of ecocriticism was conspicuous by its absence. That gap could have...

The Telling is the last of Ursula Le Guin’s Hainish novels, set in a galaxy in which numerous planets, including Terra, have been...

Since its first publication in 2015, Arran Stibbe’s Ecolinguistics has been hugely influential in research in this field. The book’s...

Deftly folding in scholarship, historical names, and references without overloading the verse, Kuzminsky traces the 12th-century story of...

What a contrast!! After agreeing to write this blog entry on Irina Kuzminsky’s Heloise Speaks: A Verse Novel , I rushed to my bookshelves...

Storytelling and Ecology, from Bloomsbury Academic, is my first academic monograph. The writing of it – the second draft in particular – was quite an intense experience, since it coincided with the first five months of the pandemic. The concept of 'lockdown' was for me...

Three years ago I moved back to England (to Trowbridge, Wiltshire) after 24 years of living on the east coast of America. And I am very...

'Although nearly all these poems appear in print here for the first time, reading the eight voices included, all strikingly distinct,...

I’ve been aware for a long time how the heroic age of discovery by European explorers, from the late 15th century onwards, raised the curtain for the imperialist conquest and exploitation of the populations and territories of other countries. But ...