Without an Alibi

The project is a book collection of 65 poems, primarily with an environmental focus. This practice-led project draws on eco-critical theory (Wilson, 1992; and Bate, 2000) and Darwinian literary theory (Carroll, 2004) to explore ideas of ecology, the ‘natural’, and conservation. The poems explore a proposal of synthesis: that nature is for us both a construction of language/culture (as argued by post structuralism/ cultural studies) and also a pragmatic, empirical entity that can be experienced through the senses as well as through culture. For example, individual poems describe genres of ‘forest’ (‘Literary Forests’, ‘The Conservative Forest’, ‘The Imperial Forest’) which demonstrate how ‘nature’ can be culturally constructed, but also remain an empirical entity with which we experience a more immediate, physical connection, as posited by Bate (following Heidegger’s ‘being-in-the-world’) . The work also explores through satire the concept of evolutionary adaptation, for example the integration of machine into forest (‘The Black Forest’), animals adopting human characteristics (‘In Praise of Bears’), and ‘nature’ as a damaged or absent ‘other’. Without an Alibi makes various strands of theoretical thinking concrete and manifest by ‘showing not telling’, in creative practice. The work has been high positively reviewed in the prestigious Australian Book Review, and by Professor Peter Pierce in the Canberra Times. Several of the poems have since been reproduced in national anthologies including The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry (2000) and Australian Poetry Since 1988 (Uni of NSW Press).

Sporting with the Classics: The Latin Poetry of William Dillingham

Sporting with the Classics: The Latin Poetry of William Dillingham (2010) (back cover)

Dana Sutton, University of California:
‘The great merit of Estelle Haan's study is that she is willing to take Dillingham seriously as a poet. Her reproduction of his work, together with an English translation and very detailed studies of his individual poems have the combined effect of rescuing an interesting poet from near-total oblivion. This, in my opinion, is the finest thing a neo-Latin scholar can do, and Haan accomplishes her task with the same skill, sensitivity, and eloquence that have distinguished her studies of other neo-Latin poets of this period (Joseph Addison and Vincent Bourne). It is impossible not to react to this volume with extreme respect and appreciation’.

Gordon Campbell, University of Leicester:
‘Nothing substantial has ever been published on Dillingham, but with this volume we have a new corpus of poetry that intersects with the work of many other seventeenth-century neo-Latin and vernacular poets. Professor Haan’s scholarship is here (as always) placed at the service of the poet, and she leads the reader gently through the work of a new poet. Professor Haan is the most eminent and able neo-Latinist of her generation, and her scholarship never fails; sometimes it dazzles as in the chapters on the hangman's stone and on Renaissance topiary. Her research is always up-to-date, and her translations have a gracefulness that other laborers in the vineyard can only envy’.

A Matter of Life and Death; The House of Osiris; The High Window; The Doctors

A series of individual poems selected for a special contemporary Irish edition of the American journal Atlanta Review.

Ghostwhistle

This collection of poems draws from the landscape of rural Pennsylvania. Individual poems examine the economic, social, political, and familial struggles that this region entails.

England's Helicon, a collection or lyrical and pastoral poems: published in 1600,

Title vignette.

Complete songs and poems of Robert Tannahill, with life and notes.

Includes index.

Select poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed /

Includes index.

Madrigales. [Poems.

Mode of access: Internet.

Several poems of Enrique Fernández Granados.

Mode of access: Internet.

Poems.

Mode of access: Internet.

Poems : with The ballad of Reading gaol.

Mode of access: Internet.

A country boy and other poems.

Mode of access: Internet.

Charmides and other poems /

Mode of access: Internet.

By the way of the gate; poems and dramas,

v. 1. Ad astra. The skaith of Guillardun. Amy Robsart. Nature Poems, Love poems. Sacred poems. Lyrics from three dramas. Historical and political poems. Miscellaneous poems.--v.2 David and Bathshua. Donna Marina. Undine.