Louise Crisp

Glide - Poems is the second part of an eco-poetic project that began with the landmark collection Yuiquimbiang. Louise Crisp's new collection extends her walking interrogation of environmental destruction in south-eastern Australia; stolen land afflicted by the ongoing colonial practices of logging, mining and land clearing. Glide - Poems is a series of radical long-form poems which attend to specific...

Australians 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...