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'Pete Hay is pre-eminent among the guardians of Tasmania’s island’s spirit, his fierce intelligence and compassionate heart resisting those who would ravage, exploit and appropriate its natural beauty, cultural creativity and fraught history for profit and power. Animals and ancestors, people and plants, the lost and the loved, the humus and the human, the artist and the artefact, the books and the birds, the sadness and the stillness, the past and the possible, the humour and the horror all find voice in 'Forgotten Corners'. ' (Publication summary)
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A Review of Pete Hay's Forgotten Corners : Essays in Search of an Island’s Soul
2022
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review
— Appears in: Otoliths , February no. 64 2022;
— Review of Forgotten Corners : Essays in Search of an Island's Soul 2019 selected work essay 'Discovering the soul of something can be as elusive as the wind. Still, Pete Hay searches and catalogues his journey as he does so in his collection of essays Forgotten Corners: Essays in Search of an Island’s Soul. This collection embodies the interdisciplinary approach so favoured by Hay as he looks at an island, Tasmania, through lenses of science, politics, artistry, experience, and heritage. Recurring throughout this collection is the importance of placemaking, not being born to a land but committing to it and following through on the duty of care that commitment entails. Hay’s concept of commitment brings forth a second recurring theme, that of environmentalism. With a delightful array of themes, topics, and narrative tones this collection marries the scholarly with the personal to deliver bite sized essays.'(Introduction)
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A Review of Pete Hay's Forgotten Corners : Essays in Search of an Island’s Soul
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Otoliths , February no. 64 2022;
— Review of Forgotten Corners : Essays in Search of an Island's Soul 2019 selected work essay 'Discovering the soul of something can be as elusive as the wind. Still, Pete Hay searches and catalogues his journey as he does so in his collection of essays Forgotten Corners: Essays in Search of an Island’s Soul. This collection embodies the interdisciplinary approach so favoured by Hay as he looks at an island, Tasmania, through lenses of science, politics, artistry, experience, and heritage. Recurring throughout this collection is the importance of placemaking, not being born to a land but committing to it and following through on the duty of care that commitment entails. Hay’s concept of commitment brings forth a second recurring theme, that of environmentalism. With a delightful array of themes, topics, and narrative tones this collection marries the scholarly with the personal to deliver bite sized essays.'(Introduction)
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