Attesting to the posthumanist concern for multiplicity, inclusiveness and interdependence, transcorporeality (Alaimo 2010) represents a particularly useful concept for interpreting modern poetry. By recognising the inseparability of the human and the "more-than-human" as well as the permeability of human bodies, transcorporeality echoes the fundamentally metaphorical nature of poetic perception and its "de-centring" expressive mechanisms. Drawing on these ideas, in this article I propose a discussion of a selection of texts by Canadian poets Christopher Dewdney and Rebecca Elson that are exemplary of a unique perspective resulting from the artful fusion of a solid positivist-scientific understanding of the universe and a fine artistic sensitivity intent on revealing the spiritual potential of the material. In particular, I am interested in highlighting how the awareness of the body's connections with its environment is conducive to the realignment of the individual with the biological and geological realms.
Octavian More (2025) studied this question.