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- Review: John Lewis-Stempel, The Wood: the Life and Times of Cockshutt Wood
Authors: Patrick Armstrong
Abstract: This review comments on a recent book by an award-winning author that elegantly combines the notions of landscape, language an sustainability in a year's diary describing the changes in a small area of woodland in Herefordshire, in the borderland between England and Wales.
PubDate: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:53:58 PST
- Eggs, Hair, Seeds, Milk
Authors: Patrick West
Abstract: Short story
PubDate: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:53:54 PST
- Mount Keira by night
Authors: Frank Russo
Abstract: Poem: Mount Keira by night
PubDate: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:53:48 PST
- Summer on The Swan River, 1953
Authors: Lawrence A. Smith Mr
Abstract: Memories of the Swan River, Perth, Western Australia, 65 years ago.
PubDate: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:53:42 PST
- After Rain
Authors: Louise Boscacci
Abstract: Amidst climate chaos, words gather as a tipping point in after-affect. On January 4, 2020, the massive Currowan bushfire in New South Wales crossed the Shoalhaven River and raced into the Wingecarribee district of the Illawarra region south of Sydney. After two weeks of emergency warnings, a new preternatural “catastrophic” danger rating, watch and act alerts, and heatwave temperatures, the fire front arrived on a blunt southerly gale in the evening. Climate breakdown had delivered locally and personally. The next day, light rain, more drizzle than shower, visited the home fireground.
PubDate: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:53:36 PST
- Looking for Marianne North
Authors: John Charles Ryan
Abstract: This poem reflects on the life of peripatetic botanical illustrator Marianne North (1830-1890) who travelled to Southwest Australia in 1880.
PubDate: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:53:32 PST
- Landscapes of connection
Authors: Eloise Biggs et al.
Abstract: This poetic reflection piece provides key insights into current scholarly landscape research within the context of environmental geography, highlighting converging stories of connection.
PubDate: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:53:24 PST
- Critically Imagining a Decolonised Vision in Australian Poetry
Authors: Cassandra Julie O'Loughlin
Abstract: Postmodern ecocriticism, given its broad range of perspectives, offers an agreeable platform for articulating a new, advanced and inclusive framework for a decolonising theorisation of literature and the environment. This article seeks to identify Australian Western decolonising poetry that sits in harmony with Indigenous aural and literary versions of communicative engagement with Country. The concept of human embeddedness in ecological relationships and biological processes as part of a complex matrix of interdependent things is embraced. In particular this article focuses on inclusivity and interconnectedness of all life forms to illustrate aesthetic and conceptual interfaces between Aboriginal Australia and Western poetics. Ethnic and national particularities are recognised but attempts are made to transcend cultural and national boundaries. I am suggesting that present-day neo-colonialism can be resisted if we find common ground upon which all humans and other-than-humans can coexist, cooperate and flourish.
PubDate: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:53:17 PST
- The Dancing Between Two Worlds Project: Background, Methodology and
Learning to Approach Community in Place
Authors: Anindita Banerjee et al.
Abstract: This article recounts the history to date of the Dancing Between Two Worlds (DBTW) project, which was initiated by a team of artist-scholars at Deakin University in 2018. DBTW’s brief was to engage the Indian community living in the western fringes of Melbourne in a project on civic belonging, cross-cultural artistic identity, and the performance of outer-suburban Indian diaspora. Working with the creative and community energies that are activated at the intersection of the creative arts and demographically inflected place, the Deakin researchers collaborated with local artists with an Indian background on a major performance in late 2019: Dancing Between 2 Worlds. This performance came out of a series of creative exchanges in community venues and public spaces in the City of Wyndham Local Government Area (LGA), whereby the Deakin team offered contemporary ‘Western’ creative approaches and the Indian artists shared their traditional artistic practices—amidst discussions about place, belonging and identity. This process was supplemented by interviews with some of the participants. Our article contextualizes the DBTW project through a summary of two previous, similar Deakin enterprises; looks at the significant methodological issues linked to the project; describes the performance of late 2019; and uses project images and other figures to relate its story. We also take this opportunity to consider the nexus of a practice-led research project with community: that is, the relationships and liaison between institution (Deakin University), local government, participants, and place—over time. The article concludes by digging in to the discursive tension between the terms ‘project’ and ‘group’ and (provisionally) resolves this tension in favour of the ongoing use of the word ‘project’ for DBTW. In this way, we add to the ideas on the ‘rhetoric of projects’ originally expressed by Paul Carter in Material Thinking. The latter section of the article draws on interview material to give voice to the local Indian community members and artists around the developing thematic preoccupations of DBTW, comprising civic belonging, cross-cultural artistic identity, and the performance of Indian diaspora in outer suburban Melbourne. The focus of this article, however, concerns the learning curve at Deakin University that indexes the development of its approach to community in place.
PubDate: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:53:10 PST
- Landscape Theology: Exploring the Outfields of the Telemarkian Dream Song
Authors: Thomas Arentzen
Abstract: The article explores the Norwegian ‘national ballad’ Draumkvæde (the Dream Song) in Maren Ramskeid’s version. This work has traditionally been interpreted as a folklore adaptation of medieval visionary literature such as the Vision of Tundale, related to Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. The ballad, however, lacks demons and devils and infernal torture – it is even almost completely devoid of human beings. Instead it tells of a corporeal encounter with an imagined natural landscape. This dreamscape of the song is intimately intertwined with the local terrain of the singer. Maren Ramskeid engaged her own landscape in Telemark, the article argues, to decentre the canonized Christian text and the cultivated Christian building. Speaking an oral outdoor theology, she destabilized the heaven–hell dualism and envisioned a mythological landscape where nature turns dangerously and painfully on those who do not abide by its unwritten norms, but where all are eventually saved by a final judgement in a place called Broksvalin.
PubDate: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:53:01 PST
- Issue Introduction Volume 10
Authors: David Gray
Abstract: Issue Introduction and Editorial for Volume 10, Issue 1.
PubDate: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:52:58 PST
- Complete Issue 1, Volume 10
Authors: David Gray
Abstract: Complete Issue 1, Volume 10
PubDate: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:52:54 PST
Issue No: Vol. 10 (2021)
- Review of Environmental Humanities and Theologies: Ecoculture, Literature
and the Bible, by Rod Giblett
Authors: Sam Mickey
Abstract: This is a review of Rod Giblett's Environmental Humanities and Theologies: Ecoculture, Literature and the Bible, published by Routledge in 2018. The review notes Giblett's contributions to the field in tracing wetlands iconography through theological and literary discourses in landmark works in the Anglo-American tradition, Judeo-Christian doctrine, and Australian Aboriginal myth.
PubDate: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 05:23:47 PDT
- Shadow over Mount Barren
Authors: Bronwyne J. Thomason Dr
Abstract: A short story that captures scenery of the Fitzgerald National Park and relates it to life-affirming principles of the natural Australian Bush.
PubDate: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 05:23:38 PDT
- Fortunates Part 1
Authors: Lawrence Upton
Abstract: A poem. With corrections listed in an email of today's date
PubDate: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 05:23:29 PDT
- Zemlja and Pioneer Day
Authors: Natalie D-Napoleon
Abstract: Poems: Zemlja and Pioneer Day by West Australia born author Natalie D-Napoleon.
PubDate: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 05:23:21 PDT
- North Sea poems: Birds of the North Sea, Caa'in, Summer Ferry
Authors: Lesley Harrison
Abstract: These poems reflect the practical, human, immersive processes of self-orientation and self-location within the coastal and island landscapes round the North Sea. In both recording and bringing about this process, the poet maps herself onto her surroundings and brings her surroundings to bear on herself. The interplay of graphic, linguistic and other forms of description are destabilised by the contingency of their usefulness, and by their meaningless to each other. In the end, the generative poetic voice is the principle by which the 'map' is made.
PubDate: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 05:23:12 PDT
- Snorkel Virgin
Authors: Emma J. Young
Abstract: Snorkel Virgin
PubDate: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 05:23:04 PDT
- Plunging Down Under
Authors: Ian Smith
Abstract: Plunging Down Under
PubDate: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 05:22:55 PDT
- Hard Data, Soft Data
Authors: Louise Boscacci
Abstract: Hard Data, Soft Data
PubDate: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 05:22:47 PDT
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