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'Australia — and the world — is changing. On the Great Barrier Reef corals bleach white, across the inland farmers struggle with declining rainfall, birds and insects disappear from our gardens and plastic waste chokes our shores. The 2019–20 summer saw bushfires ravage the country like never before and young and old alike are rightly anxious. Human activity is transforming the places we live in and love.
'In this extraordinarily powerful and moving book, some of Australia’s best-known writers and thinkers — as well as ecologists, walkers, farmers, historians, ornithologists, artists and community activists — come together to reflect on what it is like to be alive during an ecological crisis. They build a picture of a collective endeavour towards a culture of care, respect, and attention as the physical world changes around us. How do we hold onto hope?
'Personal and urgent, this is a literary anthology for our age, the age of humans.' (Publication summary)
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Contributors include: Michael Adams — Nadia Bailey — Saskia
Beudel — Tony Birch — James Bradley — Jo Chandler — Adrienne
Corradini — Sophie Cunningham — John Dargavel — Penny Dunstan
— Delia Falconer — Laura Fisher — Suzy Freeman-Greene — Andrea
Gaynor — Joëlle Gergis — Billy Griffiths — Ashley Hay — Justine
Hyde — Lucas Ihlein — Jennifer Lavers — Ian Lunt — George Main
— Cameron Allan Mckean — Gretchen Miller — Ruth A. Morgan
— Stephen Muecke — Cameron Muir — Jenny Newell — Emily
O’gorman — Kate Phillips — Alison Pouliot — Jane Rawson —
Annalise Rees — Lauren Rickards — David Ritter — Libby Robin —
John Charles Ryan — Katrina Schlunke — Ray Thompson — Angela
Tiatia — Ellen Van Neerven — Adriana Vergés — Kirsten Wehner
— Gib Wettenhall — Josh Wodak — Kate Wright
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Works about this Work
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‘A World of Wounds’ : Living with a Changing Climate
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January–February no. 428 2021; (p. 51)
— Review of Living with the Anthropocene 2020 anthology essay prose -
Archives of Loss : Prithvi Varatharajan on Living with the Anthropocene
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , November 2020;
— Review of Living with the Anthropocene 2020 anthology essay prose -
Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner and Jenny Newell (eds) Living with the Anthropocene
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 31 October - 6 November 2020;
— Review of Living with the Anthropocene 2020 anthology essay prose'“I can tell our stories. I can bear witness. But I have to be honest. Some days bearing witness doesn’t seem like enough.” That’s novelist and editor Sophie Cunningham in the essay collection Living with the Anthropocene. Her unease highlights a dilemma haunting the entire book: Why write when the world’s ending – or, at least, changing in extraordinary ways? What can authors offer in the Anthropocene?' (Introduction)
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Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner and Jenny Newell (eds) Living with the Anthropocene
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 31 October - 6 November 2020;
— Review of Living with the Anthropocene 2020 anthology essay prose'“I can tell our stories. I can bear witness. But I have to be honest. Some days bearing witness doesn’t seem like enough.” That’s novelist and editor Sophie Cunningham in the essay collection Living with the Anthropocene. Her unease highlights a dilemma haunting the entire book: Why write when the world’s ending – or, at least, changing in extraordinary ways? What can authors offer in the Anthropocene?' (Introduction)
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‘A World of Wounds’ : Living with a Changing Climate
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January–February no. 428 2021; (p. 51)
— Review of Living with the Anthropocene 2020 anthology essay prose -
Archives of Loss : Prithvi Varatharajan on Living with the Anthropocene
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , November 2020;
— Review of Living with the Anthropocene 2020 anthology essay prose