Welcome to Seeds, a blog with a focus on things green and their human relations. The image seen above captures what I hope will be the spirit of this blog, with this centuries old tree being held upright and burgeoning with life in part by human intervention and in part by intricate webs of eco-communications. This socioecological interaction is the focus of this blog and my posts will be informed by a particular methodology that has increasingly guided green academic thought in literary studies: ecocriticism. I will use this approach to analyse materials including poems, short stories, and novels. The posts to come look at the nonhuman world (including flora, fauna, waterways, soil, and fungi) and its interaction with the activities of humans – particularly since the time of the Industrial Revolution of the West and the Romantic movement that followed. I hope some of the perspectives to come may be new or different to the reader, thus bringing forth the vocabulary, tools, and ideas of ecocriticism so as to draw the nonhuman out of the background and into active focus.
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