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Coupe Portraits : Walking the Damaged Forests of East Gippsland (Gunaikurnai Country) sequence   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Coupe Portraits : Walking the Damaged Forests of East Gippsland (Gunaikurnai Country)
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'A coupe is a specific area of forest identified for logging operations under VicForests’ Timber Release Plans. Despite the ecological catastrophe of the 2019-20 Summer bushfires which burnt through 1.25 million hectares of forest in East Gippsland VicForests has not revised its logging plans, in fact two additional Timber Release Plans were approved by the Board of the state-owned company in July and December 2020. More than 550 coupes and 20,000 hectares of forest including key unburnt refuges are scheduled for logging in East Gippsland.

'The Coupe Portraits series was created by Louise Crisp and Lisa Roberts as part of Stony Creek Collective a collaborative multi-artform research project undertaken in the foothill forests of East Gippsland during 2020-21. The project was supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.' (Introduction)

Includes

Giant Rain Moth i "A red eye floats down through humidity and stems of stringybarks:", Louise Crisp , Lisa Roberts (illustrator), 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
Masked Owl i "A narrow funnel of old forest to hunt in leads up the gully to Stony Creek Rd", Louise Crisp , Lisa Roberts (interviewer), 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
Mt Alfred – Nuggur-yowatie i "Coupe city my friend says – there’s not much forest left standing", Louise Crisp , Lisa Roberts (illustrator), 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
Mellick Munjie i "Old growth and cool temperate rainforest spit the seeds: orange from banyalla fruit", Louise Crisp , Lisa Roberts (illustrator), 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
Mt Dow i "Epicormic growth blossoms from messmate and manna up Engineers Rd", Louise Crisp , Lisa Roberts (illustrator), 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
Mt Dow Loggers Camp i "Tambo Bay a neck of land in distant pale water", Louise Crisp , Lisa Roberts (illustrator), 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
Tiger i "Swayed by a dozen yellow-bellied gliders each leaf of the old forest hears the sound a word a", Louise Crisp , Lisa Roberts (illustrator), 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
Burnetts Ridge i "Densely: the young trees in the silvertop plantations: exhausted by their lack of speech", Louise Crisp , Lisa Roberts (illustrator), 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
Fiddlers Creek i "black cockatoos talking to their young", Louise Crisp , Lisa Roberts (illustrator), 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
Stalactites i "Waiting for the birds:", Louise Crisp , Lisa Roberts (illustrator), 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
Bulls Roar : Preventing the Future i "The new face of the forest turns west defying the sun along two kilometres", Louise Crisp , Lisa Roberts (illustrator), 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
Alpine Tree Frog (Littoria Verreauxii Alpina) i "Whistling frog of the bogs and fens you chased 300 Hereford cattle off Shepherds Plain", Louise Crisp , Lisa Roberts (illustrator), 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
Toorloo i "In limestone country – vortex of topography: blind, furless, unborn, a swamp wallaby joey", Louise Crisp , Lisa Roberts (illustrator), 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
Hexazinone i "Police tape flickers in the sun undulations of dead cotton weed three kangaroos follow a", Louise Crisp , Lisa Roberts (illustrator), 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Cordite Poetry Review No Theme X no. 101 1 May Jeanine Leane (editor), John Kinsella (editor), Hayley Miller-Baker (editor), 2021 21730491 2021 periodical issue

    'A callout for a poetry of consciousness ‘that enacts and is responsible for what it considers’, that has been written with an awareness of ‘crises, brinks and redress’, was always going to bring some powerful and confronting work. We also hoped for poetry with contiguous capacity for social justice, community awareness and social and emotional wellbeing, and we feel that we have been able to select and collate such poems here. There are many different causes, convictions and concerns addressed in these poems, but the act of showing concern and suggesting a wish for positive change – for asserting a sense of justice and seeking that justice – is inherent in different ways in most if not all of the poems in this issue.' (John Kinsella and Jeanine Leane, Editorial introduction)

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