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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

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

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