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Monthly Archives: February 2011
another ‘definition’
‘literary prose whose major inspiration and subject matter is the natural world, not necessarily excluding its significance for humans and/or their interactions with it.’- Guidelines for Wildcare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize.
Forest and Sea
During Tasmanian Living Writers Week in August 2006 I was invited to speak on the subject of Writing about Place. I’m posting the transcript of my talk here, with a few extra poems thrown in as illustrations of how Place … Continue reading
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Watermark Literary Muster 2011
The Nature and Place of The Backyard At this fifth Muster, writers and readers will celebrate the literature of THE BACKYARD, its nature and natural history and its sense of place. Perhaps your backyard is a quarter acre block, a … Continue reading
A rare mix
‘At best, the genre we call nature writing requires a rare mixture of scientist, philosopher, and poet. ‘–Edwin Way Teale in Green Treasury
On the Road
In a booklet inside the cover of Leonard Cohen’s DVD+CD ‘Songs from the road’, Leon Wieseltier gives a brief essay on Cohen’s European tour (May 2008 – Nov 2009). Entitled ‘The Art of Wandering’, it begins with a line I … Continue reading
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Black Swans and Gymea Lilies
This essay on haiku in Australia was first published in Five Bells: Australian Poetry, Summer 2006, and can now be found online at HaikuOz. It deals with the history of writing haiku in Australia and on the development of an … Continue reading
Return of the Moonbirds
I was thrilled to have this essay published in Griffith Review #30: Annual Fiction Edition. It’s a story about place, the migration of the shearwaters, relationships and fragility. I hope you enjoy it. Return of the moonbirds: Migratory paths Lyn … Continue reading
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WILDCARE Tasmania Nature Writing Prize
Submissions for this biennial writing prize close today, but I thought it worth posting information about it so that you can start on something to send to the next round in 2013. ‘The WILDCARE Tasmania Nature Writing Prize is an … Continue reading
Atlas Poetica: A journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka
“Tanka poetry of place embodies the community and environment, both human and natural, through which the poet travels. Groups and places are profoundly important, forming the affective and effective boundaries of the poet’s psyche. Whether contemplating subjects as diverse as … Continue reading
Spirit of Place: Australia – a proposed anthology of Australian tanka
Submissions close February 27, 2010 All Australian tanka poets are welcome to submit up to ten original tanka of which a maximum of three poems per poet may be selected. Poems should address country and suburban living, the inland and … Continue reading
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