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1 1 We Love, Animals a Multispecies Love Letter i "We love multispecies we many dear deer were introduced welcome feral to the hunt", Katherine Fitzhywel , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Swamphen : A Journal of Cultural Ecology , no. 9 2023;
1 Setting Fire to the Poetic Correspondence of Troubled Multispecies Relationships Katherine Fitzhywel , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Swamphen : A Journal of Cultural Ecology , no. 9 2023; 'This poetic work is a multispecies love letter seeking to make the reader aware of the strange aporia of human ‘love’ for animals.1 Contradictory human expressions of love, care, indifference, and harm towards animals can be seen in words that change perceptions of animals (as individuals, groups or in general). Consider the changing status of a ‘pet’ cat being discarded and becoming ‘feral’. Is ‘it’ a ‘pest’ to be ‘culled’, not even ‘killed’ or ‘put to sleep’ or can ‘they’ be ‘rescued’? This work explores multiple and conflicting affective outcomes words have on building compassion, understanding and support for animals, or adding to misconceptions which can result in disregard or violent treatment. The words we use to represent animals and express our relationships to them can reduce animals to iconic national symbols and supportive anthropocentric tools, or to draw out the diversity, multiplicity and intrinsic value of animal being and create space for animals in the text.' (Introduction)
1 Ania Walwicz : She Could Throw a Whirling Dervish Out of Whirl! Katherine Fitzhywel , 2021 single work obituary (for Ania Walwicz )
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 10 no. 2 2021; (p. 128-130)

“Hiiieee… Katherine. What a crazy world we’re living in. Be great to chat with you. All the best. See you soon. Ciao. Ania.”

'Ania Walwicz and I were born on the same day of the same month. She would be 70 this May and I should be 48, but I’m not sure really, which one of us was younger. She told me she didn’t like the idea of being 70. It wasn’t about slowing down or wanting to write an ending. ‘I am just at the start at the beginning of the tale in the end of a book at the start only 69 young only morning at a time only now only now and in my office now where I teach myself to be alive I am only alive now only now please let it go on some more…’ Ania often wrote in places full of people. Full of life. In her shared office, the State Library, in class with her students, food courts… she wrote in the midst of people rushing around, doing everyday boring things. Ania was never boring. She was a whirling dervish of creativity ‘...hoo hoo hoo here I go now my foot in leather slipper shod happy soft on shine floor now I turn I whirl I spin round and around now…’' (Introduction)
1 A Review of... Katherine Fitzhywel , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Rabbit , Autumn no. 8 2013; (p. 106-109)
— Review of Snowline Jo Langdon , 2012 selected work poetry
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