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OverviewAustralians hear the call of Country, but without knowledge of the history and the lives of its animals and plants, that call is confused and loses itself in opal fields and vainglorious stockman's museums. Follow Crisp: not for her the umbrella on the beach and a martini by the chlorinated pool. She is enmeshed with Country and throws herself into its wild embrace. 'Yuiquimbiang is part of an ongoing project to create an ecopoetic form that integrates political essay and environmental poetics: a project that evolved out of my double life as a poet and environmental activist. It was driven by a desire to develop a radical ecopoetic form that would effectively communicate Australia's ecological crisis as encountered in two specific regions - East Gippsland and the Monaro - and enact an alternative inhabitation of the land. The series of mainly long-form texts in this collection is grounded in extensive walking, listening and research. A concomitant slow reading is encouraged. In the drafts, the work included detailed references that have been distilled here in the notes section at the end. I have spent decades attending to this place, and continue to search for a glimpse of the pre-European grasslands and forests and celebrate their rare survival. The work attempts to defy the continuing colonial violence that permits and supports the undoing of the land. 'Yuiquimbiang' is the first recorded European mishearing / misrepresentation of a Ngarigu word, written down by John Lhotsky in 1834 as the name of a Monaro run, which later became known as Eucumbene. The Eucumbene River, once referred to as the East Branch of the Snowy River, was excluded from the 2002 intergovernmental agreements to return environmental flows to the Snowy.' - Louise Crsip Full Product DetailsAuthor: Louise Crisp , Bruce PascoePublisher: Cordite Publishing Inc. Imprint: Cordite Publishing Inc. Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.10cm Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9780648056898ISBN 10: 0648056899 Pages: 116 Publication Date: 15 January 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationLouise Crisp is a writer based in East Gippsland. Her work focuses on specific regional environments, particularly in south-eastern Australia, northern Australia and Provence, France. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |