Scotland and Environmental Aesthetics The Tony McManus Lecture 18 February, 2023 Cairns Craig First, I want to pay tribute to the work of Tony McManus in helping us understand both the meaning and the implications of Kenneth White’s neologism ‘geopoetics’, which some of you have been fulfilling in practice today Read more…
Green Consciousness: Perspectives from Kenneth White and John Moriarty The 5th Tony McManus Geopoetics Lecture, 2022 Máiréad Nic Craith Professor of Public Folklore Institute of Northern Studies University of the Highlands and Islands NB: This is a work in progress, and I am already re-drafting it. It you wish to Read more…
Annual Tony McManus Geopoetics Lecture 2018 Leith Parish Church, 3rd November 2018 Mairi McFadyen Abstract: The challenges we face today – ecological, social and political – demand new forms of consciousness, creativity and collective action. In his book The Radical Field (2007), Tony McManus outlines the world significance of geopoetics as a Read more…
The Tony McManus Geopoetics Lecture 2017 Heriot Watt University, 18th November 2017 James McCarthy I’m honoured to be asked to give this inaugural lecture in memory of Tony McManus, who was crucial in the establishment of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics. Although I never knew Nan Shepherd personally, I feel Read more…
The following is written as if spoken. It is, however, a reconstruction from subsequent memory, plus some elaborations to what I said at the conference – Expressing the Earth, organised by the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics and the University of the Highlands and Islands on the Isle of Seil, 23 Read more…