Gregory Day

Exquisite and challenging essays on the wonders of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in Australia. A collection of beautiful and moving essays on the wonder of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in Australia. Words are Eagles collects in one place the essays of award-winning novelist and nature writer, Gregory Day....

Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024 When a troubled Sarah Hutchinson returns to Australia from boarding school in England and time spent in Europe, she is sent to live with her eccentric Uncle Ferny on the family property, Ngangahook. With the sound of the ocean surrounding everything they do on the farm, Sarah and her uncle form an inspired bond,...

In this deeply intimate and strikingly beautiful poetry collection, twice-shortlisted Miles Franklin Award author Gregory Day celebrates the ongoing wonders of the earth and sea while calling time on the superficial divisions we have created between ideas of nature and culture. Southsightedness offers a way of being as well as seeing. It details a very direct and local world but...

Winner of the Patrick White Literary Award Long before I ever met him I knew his name from the leaky desiccated type of a grey-brown slim volume, cheaply printed but essential to my research... Seeking stories of Australia's Great Ocean Road, a young writer stumbles across a manual from a minor player in the road's history, FB Herschell. It is...