Island river breath I

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2026.17.1.6045

Abstract

This creative-critical text explores the voices of the delta on and around the Eiland Van Brienenoord, an island in the river Meuse in the city of Rotterdam. In doing so, the piece explores the poetics of theoretical reflections and concepts from the field of blue and environmental humanities. Starting with the "ghosts" of the lost salmon population, the text follows the flow of the tides to explore the island's polyphony, with emphasis on more-than-human voices, such as mud, algae, boulders, brambles and invasive parakeets.

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Author Biography

Rosanne van der Voet, University of Leiden

Rosanne van der Voet is Assistant Professor in environmental humanities and urban studies at Leiden University. Her research spans across various interdisciplinary strands of the blue humanities, with particular focus on more-than-human experience of environmental issues at sea, creative-critical approaches and applied ecocritical analysis of water in urban and industrial environments in the Netherlands. Her first book, Literary Storytelling and the Environmental Crisis of the Oceans: Jellyfish Poetics is forthcoming in the Routledge environmental humanities series.  

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Published

2026-04-30

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 1 (2026): Sea More Blue

Section

Creative Writing and Arts

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