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'As I write the editorial for this our fifteenth issue of the journal, species interconnectedness and global vectors have been brought into fresh relief that the editors of our fourteenth issue could not have imagined.'
Source : Editorial introduction
Notes
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Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:The Persistence of Plastic : Environmental Public Art and Micro-Plastic Pollution by Robyn Glade-Wright
The Nature Spirits Were Always Shy : Continuing the Polylogue by Geoff Barry
A Whole Forest of Oaks, the Island in the River, the Fire and the Bees of the Goddess : What Isis Said by Etain Addey
Snæfellsjökull by Peter Reason
Introduction, 'Wireweed', 'Mitten Crab', 'Wakame Watch' by Vera Fibisan
Book Review : Australian Wetland Culture : Swamps and the Environmental Crisis (John Charles Ryan, Li Chen, eds.) by Sandra Wooltorton and Len Collard
Contents
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Feeling and Hearing Country,
single work
criticism
'Dinah Norman a-Marrngawi explained that her Country cannot hear English, it can only hear Yanyuwa. We support Dinah’s position – because the English language underpins the Australian colonial project, and has been used to separate, ignore and take from Country, her peoples and their knowledges. Country responds to people, however, for example when there is empathic, creative communication and engagement with landscapes, and when liyan and wirrin is the basis for human and ecological wellbeing. We propose a practice for people new to this participation; of ‘becoming family with place’. It integrates four ways of knowing, to celebrate an ontopoetic for Country that is experiential, creative, propositional and participative – a post-conceptual knowing for human flourishing. It is for coming home to Country, and is for learning and educational purposes.'
Source : Introduction
- Poetry, Philosophy Activism Nature 15, single work criticism (p. 45-48)
- Requesti"This summer when I won’t be there", single work poetry (p. 49-50)
- (H)edgesi"Unnatural remnant", single work poetry (p. 51-52)
- Bird Deathi"An upturned bird on the cobblestones in the alleyway behind my office today, a", single work poetry (p. 53)
- Bushfires and Driza-bones, single work poetry (p. 54)
- Floods in Chennaii"A phone call from Adelaide as I’m buying cherries and peaches after a swim. ‘Do", single work poetry (p. 55)
- Coastal Idylli"A crescent beach, flour-white sand,", single work poetry (p. 60-61)
- Mountainous Islandi"You might think it nostalgic", single work poetry (p. 61-63)
- Our Timesi"Who, with an open heart, unflinching gaze", single work poetry (p. 63-64)
- On the Organic Form of Arti"There are those who don’t believe you", single work poetry (p. 64-66)