Essays & Interviews
Read the articles, essays and interviews from literary critics and theorists, and from thinkers across the environmental humanities.

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“We need to approach the pastoral with care”[i]: feminism, landscape, ekphrasis and formal experimentation in Frances Presley’s Collected Poems
Hazel Smith

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Nobody’s Voice: to hear what is unheard as a pressing task for poetics today
Warwick Mules

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Life of a Sundew or Sundew of a Life
Pantea Armanfar

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Wild Yam Dreaming: The Phytopoetics of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
John Charles Ryan

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Sarah Balkin reports on Not Now, Not Ever by Lara Stevens
Sarah Balkin

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The Trumpian Nil
Meredith Wattison

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Crossing borders: Caitlin Maling in conversation with Amy Lin
Caitlin Maling and Amy Lin

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When the Whales Left
Daniel Helman

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Amitav Ghosh: Sea Routes, Flowers and Opium
Jennifer Mackenzie

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Poplars Stripped Bare: Mental Health and other Catastrophes in the Poetry of Grace Perry
Phillip Hall

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Parallax: Negative Lyricism in Dialogue with John Kinsella
Jonathan Dunk and John Kinsella

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Language and the World
Robert Wood

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Chinese Puzzle in Seven Pieces
Lesley Synge

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On Social Poetry after Kenneth Goldsmith
Robert Wood

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Talking to a Stranger: Decolonising the Australian “Landscape” Poem
Bonny Cassidy

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The Songs of Others: Contemporary Poetics and the More-than-human
Stuart Cooke

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Lionel Fogarty’s Literary Criticism after the Postcolony
Corey Wakeling

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Poetics, Writing, Thought: Martin Harrison in Conversation
Deborah Bird Rose

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Poetics, Writing, Thought: Fragments from the Harrisonian Institute: against “priority” in Poetics, Writing, Thought
Jason Childs

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Poetics, Writing, Thought: Martin Harrison’s Final Appearance
Anne Elvey

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Cultivating Ecological Perception: Creativity within Undergraduate Explorations of Human Ecology and Ecological Agriculture
Ben Gleeson

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Adapted for land: a lungfish writes the sea
Brook Emery

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On Suburbanism’s Open Matrix: birds in poetry of Jean Kent, Dorothy Porter and other Australian poetry
R. D. Wood

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“In a Sense”: Sonic Phenomena, Temporal Scale and Ecological Encounter in Martin Harrison’s “White-Tailed Deer”
Kate Fagan

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Nature and Antiquity in the Work of Martin Harrison
Berndt Sellheim

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I Wonder If He Has Ever Spoken to Bees: Sentiments to M. Harrison
Clare Cholerton and Justin Wolfers

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To be continued
Devin Johnston

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Continuing the Conversation
Lorraine Shannon

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The Sense of Writing; or Martin Harrison’s Breakfast
Brenton Lyle

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Some Reflections on the Poetry of Martin Harrison
Peter Boyle

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A Martin Harrison ABC
Stephen Muecke

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This Furred Place—the Woolfs’ anthropomorphism, bunnies in people suits and the zoomorphic other—
Meredith Wattison

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“Poetry does not tamper with the world, but moves it” (William Carlos Williams): Q&A with Ann Fisher-Wirth
Ann Fisher-Wirth and Anne Elvey

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Seeing the Forest for the White Beech Tree: Germaine Greer and Ecofeminism
Lara Stevens

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Q&A with Corey Wakeling and Jeremy Balius
Anne Elvey

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Environmental Empathy in the Contemporary Epic: Exploring Ephemeral Waters and Phosphorescence of Thought by Amy Brown
Amy Brown

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“Into black air”: Darkness and its Possibilities in the Poetry of Jane Kenyon by Rose Lucas
Rose Lucas