'In one of her last essays, Val Plumwood wrote of her vision of how poetry and expository writing might find ways and forms of mutual excitement: ‘The enriching, intentionalising and animating project I have championed is also a project that converges with much poetry and literature. It is a project of re-animating the world, and remaking ourselves as well, so as to become multiply enriched but consequently constrained members of an ecological community’ (2009: 46). Such a project in these times seeks to open creative spaces in the midst of confusion and despair. ' (Author's abstract)