The topic of 'Poetics' is closely related to the podcast episodes provided, as they both delve into the poetic and lyrical dimensions of language, storytelling, and the natural world.

The first episode, 'Greg Ellermann, "Thought's Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature" (Stanford UP, 2022)', discusses how Romantic writers developed a 'poetics of wilderness' to circumvent the domination of nature by modern capitalism. This poetics aimed to recognize the ephemeral, ungraspable forms of nature and let things be, rather than conceptually or economically controlling them.

The second episode, 'Becoming a Ruin: Decomposing and Regrowing the Mythic with Sophie Strand', explores the poetic and lyrical dimensions of storytelling and mythology, bringing the mythic into the tangible and placing stories deep within a living ecosystem.