Walking through: nostalgia, Mythogeography and the Rural Dérive in Peter Riley’s Alstonefield

Kemp, Sam (2023) Walking through: nostalgia, Mythogeography and the Rural Dérive in Peter Riley’s Alstonefield. New Writing, 20 (1). pp. 99-110.

Abstract

Landscape poet Peter Riley uses the Situationist dérive in order to negotiate the cultural landscape of the British countryside, his collection Alstonefield (2002) forming a psychogeographic investigation into spaces of nostalgia, contradiction and pastoralism in British ruralism. This essay will argue that Riley adapts the urban dérive for a contemporary rural landscape, exploring the radicalisms of pastoral tropes and exposing the spectacle in British rural perceptions. Using the framework of Phil Smith Mythogeography, a contemporary theatrical adaption of the Situationist dérive, my aim is to explore the role of walking as a negotiation of rural spectacle within the wider Radical Landscape Poetry movement.

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Official URL:	https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2025851
Item Type:	Article
Disciplines:	Humanities > English
Depositing User:	Sam Kemp
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2024 10:40
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2024 13:24
URI:	https://nul.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1148

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