{"title":"Louise Crisp","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLouise Crisp\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a captivating exploration of place and identity through her works, such as \u003cem\u003eGlide\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eYuiquimbiang\u003c\/em\u003e. Her writing is deeply rooted in the natural landscape, weaving vivid imagery with a keen sense of cultural awareness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find a unique blend of poetry and reflection that resonates within the \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e sphere, inviting contemplation on the environment and human connection. Crisp’s voice is both evocative and grounded, making her collection an essential journey for lovers of thoughtful, place-inspired literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"glide-by-louise-crisp-9781925780857","title":"Glide","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlide - Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is the second part of an eco-poetic project that began with the landmark collection \u003ci\u003eYuiquimbiang\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLouise 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. \u003ci\u003eGlide - Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is a series of radical long-form poems which attend to specific East Gippsland ecosystems: endangered gliders of the foothill forests, rare grasslands of the Gippsland Plains, a copper mine on the montane headwaters of the Tambo River, and the historic Brolga country of the Gippsland Lakes' fringing freshwater wetlands in counterpoint to the Brolga swamps and lagoons of south-western Victoria.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCrisp creates an intimate and haunting poetics of inhabitation and dialogue with the more-than-human world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430805749996,"sku":"9781925780857","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781925780857.jpg?v=1774558527"},{"product_id":"yuiquimbiang-by-louise-crisp-9780648056898","title":"Yuiquimbiang","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAustralians 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYuiquimbiang\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYuiquimbiang\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Crisp\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471994142956,"sku":"9780648056898","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780648056898-yuiquimbiang.jpg?v=1775264728"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/louise-crisp.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}