Western culture has divided and opposed culture and nature, most often to the destruction and detriment of nature but also with the result of alienating human culture from a creative contact with natural reality. There are, however, ways in which culture does and can find its way back to nature and it is argued that poetry is a place where culture and nature can meet.

If for poetry you also read painting, then the work of Lucie Winterson is situated here.

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