Venie Environmental Poetry Prize
Pushing empty packets into the bin, I see the whales, on the news, 470 of them lying haphazardly like precious flotsam a child might find, washed up in Macquarie Harbour. 470 seems closer to an evacuation than an accident. Sometimes, as a girl, swimming out so far there was no sand within reach of my
I pick my way around dry grass, cow pats, prickles it’s hot and this is not pretty country we pass a huge coolabah sprays of new leaves lit like emerald glass this tree and my friend remember when people walked this country held landmarks like this in their minds nearby she finds a bush banana
The stone knows at heart, of the microbes tucked into its grains, that they too are stone, like the trees, like the flatworms. The birds are the shards of its wind-caught self. For aeons it has leaned into the act of speaking – earthquake and avalanche, bark and hiss and roar. In the silk of
Australians can downshift and retrofit their homes, gardens, communities and, above all, themselves to be more self-organised, sustainable and resilient into an uncertain future.
Please join us for the 2022Â Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize award ceremony where the winning poem will be announced and read out. This event coincides with the closing of the 2022 Daylesford Words in Winter festival. Share a drink, a poem, a yarn and relax by the fire. ...
There is no better way to learn how the ...
You are warmly invited to join David Holmgren on a tour beyond the boundaries down the gully to Spring Creek, exploring the territory where he, Su Dennett and others in the community have for decades been stewarding the common land on a larger scale, making tracks, planting and pruning trees, grazing goats, building leaky weirs and engaging in other positive action that enhances ecological diversity, makes the land more fire safe and amenable to locals and visitors alike. ...
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