Papers by Kathryn Kirkpatrick
A History of Irish Literature and the Envrironment, 2022
Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis, 2022
Europe Now, 2021
This is part of our special feature, Rethinking the Human in a Multispecies World. Twice in the m... more This is part of our special feature, Rethinking the Human in a Multispecies World. Twice in the month of August, I dreamed of black bears. First, I dreamed of scat. Though I am not aware of ever having seen bear scat on our Appalachian ridge, my dream image matched some of the dark purplish piles I found online. In the second, the bears had arrived in numbers, taking over a room in my house, curling up on couches and pillows. My dreamself wondered if I might need to leave the house to them. Later, the bears had gone, the impressions of their round bodies still in the fabrics. I woke to the sensation that the dream was not entirely mine, that I had sidled up to the dream of the earth through some kind of shared language.
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
These poems were inspired by the multispecies world I inhabit with Shetland sheepdogs, racc... more These poems were inspired by the multispecies world I inhabit with Shetland sheepdogs, raccoons, nuthatches, black-capped chickadees, cardinals, a cognitively impaired parent, cows, and many other human and nonhuman animals. Increasingly, I find that my poems assume a perspective where human animals, and especially temporarily abled human animals, are never the entire story. Our species has always made meaning in relation to other living creatures, but I try to push beyond the use of animals solely as metaphors for human concerns to include the individual lives of cows and their calves or a companion dog. In "Early light" and "all night the cows and their calves," I explore the intricate dance of domestication, a process we tend to assume is one-sided. But in the case of dogs especially, a mutually defining co-evolution forms both dogness and humanness. In the latter poem, the narrator makes common cause with bereft cows in the neighborhood who have been se...
Irish University Review, 2017
Europe Now, 2020
An essay using poetry to stage ecofeminism and animal eco-poetics as possible responses to our st... more An essay using poetry to stage ecofeminism and animal eco-poetics as possible responses to our struggles to find balance in a multi-species world.
Through a Vegan Studies Lens, 2019
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An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature, Culture, and the …, Jan 1, 2009
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Jan 1, 1993
Éire-Ireland, Jan 1, 1995
Jane Austen and Mary Shelley and Their Sisters
Ed. Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick. Oxford: Oxford UP, Jan 1, 1994
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Papers by Kathryn Kirkpatrick