Geopoetics: On Organising, Mourning, And The Incalculable

In this commentary, I trace some of the earthy, mineral, and more-than-human properties of Magrane's climate poems in order to emphasise the urgency of the geopoetics project. In particular, I consider Magrane's use of constraint, de/composition, and juxtaposition as geopoetic techniques. In addition to challenging abstractions of climate change and enlivening critical and creative approaches for geography and the geohumanities, I propose that geopoetics may cultivate humility and participate in gestures of mourning. In closing, I suggest further questions for the grammar of geopoetics and geography in the midst of the current intersecting ecological, medical, economic and social crises.