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
To increase resilience, we must transit to low-tech, multi-tenanted, highly adaptive household living systems, in which growing and preserving food, keeping animals, sharing transport, retrofitting suburban dwellings and outdoor infrastructure all help create a new normal’
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Permaculture
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Hepburn Relocalisation Network
Future
Scenarios
Permaculture
Principles
Melliodora
Publishing
Permaculture Australia, Patron
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