Essays & Interviews

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

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

Life of a Sundew or Sundew of a Life

Pantea Armanfar

Wild Yam Dreaming: The Phytopoetics of Emily Kame Kngwarreye

John Charles Ryan

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

The Trumpian Nil

Meredith Wattison

Crossing borders: Caitlin Maling in conversation with Amy Lin

Caitlin Maling and Amy Lin

When the Whales Left

Amitav Ghosh: Sea Routes, Flowers and Opium

Jennifer Mackenzie

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

Parallax: Negative Lyricism in Dialogue with John Kinsella

Jonathan Dunk and John Kinsella

Language and the World

Chinese Puzzle in Seven Pieces

On Social Poetry after Kenneth Goldsmith

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

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

Lionel Fogarty’s Literary Criticism after the Postcolony

Poetics, Writing, Thought: Martin Harrison in Conversation

Deborah Bird Rose

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

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

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

Adapted for land: a lungfish writes the sea

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

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

Nature and Antiquity in the Work of Martin Harrison

Berndt Sellheim

I Wonder If He Has Ever Spoken to Bees: Sentiments to M. Harrison

Clare Cholerton and Justin Wolfers

To be continued

Continuing the Conversation

Lorraine Shannon

The Sense of Writing; or Martin Harrison’s Breakfast

Some Reflections on the Poetry of Martin Harrison

A Martin Harrison ABC

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

Meredith Wattison

“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

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

Q&A with Corey Wakeling and Jeremy Balius

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

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

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