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'My provocation as guest editor for this new issue of Not Very Quiet, ‘Earth Poems’, focused on the woman who ignited the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson. Carson alerted the world to the dangers of DDT and pointed out (in the mid-1960s) that ‘we live in an age of rising seas … a startling alteration of climate’. As I noted in the provocation, the springboard for Carson’s superb writing was her keen observation of, connection with, and deep love for the natural world.' (Tricia Dearborn :Introduction to ‘Earth Poems')
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Epigraph: Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
- Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder, 1965
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Katie Assarian : When We Were Called Farm Children
Gina Marie Bernard : Picking Blueberries with Grandma Sabo
Jhilam Chattaraj : I will fall sick if you photograph me
Diana Donovan : Sisters
Cheryl Dumesnil : Sermon 1
Lauren Fancher : Drive-In
Elizabeth Galoozis : Reprisal
Kathy Gee : Mastery
Gwendolen Gross : Continuous Bloom
Sonia Hamer : The Lure
A. Hampford : Crossings
Wynne Hungerford : Love Story
Rebecca Jung : The Solace of Small Things
Kathy Kituai : The Great Remembering
LindaAnn LoSchiavo : A Secret Midtown Garden
Carolyn Martin : Blamestorming
Diane Martini Richard : The Nature of Tea
Alexa Mergen : Hold and Tract
Stephanie Niu : Hometown and Vision of America
Kailah Peters: The Sky Talks
H.E. Riddleton : The Earth Accepts Its Daily Prophet : To Mary Oliver
Jamie L. Smith : Consumption
Skaidrite Stelzer : Small Blessings
Katie Stockton : The Finch
Dawn-Hunter Strobel : I Kneel to the Muddy Water in Me
Catherine Trundle : Species, Manifold
Susan Wardell : Little ’berg in the big city
Kylie Ayn Yockey : Shelled
Yvonne : Thou Art a Magnet
Contents
- Rhythmic Oscillationsi"There is still light", single work poetry
- Out Westi"Out west", single work poetry
- Most Deadlyi"We glow light deadly.", single work poetry
- A Jellyfish Quilt, Shaped like a Familyi"say imagine a patchwork on a daily tide billowing", single work poetry
- The Dusky Grasswren (Amytornis Purnelli)i"They live in spinifex", single work poetry
- Stone Tree Breathi"Enduring discipline of air", single work poetry
- Far and Wildi"I never cared for manicured lawns,", single work poetry
- Undergroundi"They break the air so high—like the slow sound", single work poetry
- There Will Be Noisei"All perfectly legal―just", single work poetry
- The Sea Calls My Namei"the smell of salt", single work poetry
- Eulogy : a Reefi"…built like a chain, the breaking of only one link could destroy it… [i]", single work poetry
- Sadness Is a Skeleton / In The Museum Cafei"as often I sit here just below", single work poetry
- He Kawau Mārōi"i come home early", single work poetry
- Hongoeka Love Poemsi"Warning at dawn", single work poetry
- Tabula Rasai"Sixty harvests until the end of things,", single work poetry
- The Girl from the Coasti"she was a child", single work poetry
- Sirenia at the Lidoi"I’m not on drugs", single work poetry
- Imagine Becoming the Seai"sucking salt", single work poetry
- Monet Knew What It Was All abouti"He chased the light by standing in one place and watching", single work poetry
- Synchronised Swimmers Found Dead in Australian Waterwayi"Synchronised swimming is designed to look / effortless /", single work poetry