by Barbara Lepani | Jul 9, 2019 | Creative Nature Writing, Our Collective
Thirty-eight degrees Celsius today. It’s supposed to be early autumn. The plane trees, always the first to signal the end of summer, have crisp brown edges on their leaves. A day of no birds, shrivelled worms, burnt grasses. Only flies and ants seem to have survived....
by Barbara Lepani | Jun 25, 2019 | Creative Nature Writing, Our Collective
The poet/gardener Alice Oswald writes: “I don’t know anything lovelier than those free shocks of sound happening against the backsound of your heart … spadescrapes, birdsong, gravel, rain on polythene, macks moving, … seeds kept in paper, potatoes coming out of boxes,...
by Barbara Lepani | May 12, 2019 | Creative Nature Writing, Our Collective
Unlike America and the United Kingdom, and despite the way in which our sense of Australian identity is anchored in our love affair with ‘the bush’, expressed in poetry and art badhowen, Australia does not have a well developed literary culture of nature...
by Barbara Lepani | Apr 11, 2019 | Creative Nature Writing, Our Collective
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