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Alternative title: The Idea of North
Issue Details: First known date: 2020... vol. 10 no. 1 2020 of Landscapes est. 2001 Landscapes
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'The call for contributions for Landscapes Volume 10, Issue 1, went out towards the latter half of 2019, with the title “Landscapes: ‘The Idea of North’”. A serendipitous, thematic title, this was inspired by Glenn Gould’s mesmeric 1967 documentary of Northern Canada, The Idea of North, as well as the 1946 memoir of life in the Nordic countries In the North, by Lady Constance Malleson; it was a link to one of the first publications from Landscapes Volume 1, Andrew Taylor’s “Wild 1 – The North”, and the field-based study experience of a group of exchange students at the International Centre for Landscape and Language (ECU), heading north from Perth, Western Australia; it was finally a reflection of the Nordic location of the editor of this volume, in Sweden. While the publications of this issue taken as a body of work cannot purport to represent any sustained sense of an engagement with the idea of North, they nevertheless embody the sense of the eclecticism implicit in the original call for contributions.' (Editorial introduction)

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* Contents derived from the 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Critically Imagining a Decolonised Vision in Australian Poetry, Cassandra J. O'Loughlin , single work criticism

'Postmodern ecocriticism, given its broad range of perspectives, offers an agreeable platform for articulating a new, advanced and inclusive framework for a decolonising theorisation of literature and the environment. This article seeks to identify Australian Western decolonising poetry that sits in harmony with Indigenous aural and literary versions of communicative engagement with Country. The concept of human embeddedness in ecological relationships and biological processes as part of a complex matrix of interdependent things is embraced. In particular this article focuses on inclusivity and interconnectedness of all life forms to illustrate aesthetic and conceptual interfaces between Aboriginal Australia and Western poetics. Ethnic and national particularities are recognised but attempts are made to transcend cultural and national boundaries. I am suggesting that present-day neo-colonialism can be resisted if we find common ground upon which all humans and other-than-humans can coexist, cooperate and flourish.' (Publication abstract)
Mount Keira by Nighti"The smell of post-rain ozone and forest spores", Frank Russo , single work poetry
Landscapes of Connectioni"Identity. Emotion. Imagination.", Eloise Biggs , Jennifer Bond , single work poetry
Looking for Marianne Northi"this grotesque burl absorbed", John Charles Ryan , single work poetry
After Raini"When it rains", Louise Boscacci , single work poetry
Summer on The Swan River, 1953i"I’m sitting on the deck of a sprawling riverside home", Laurie Smith , single work poetry
Eggs, Hair, Seeds, Milk, Patrick West , single work short story
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