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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... vol. 2 2013 of Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology est. 2011 Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology
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* Contents derived from the 2013 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
‘The Name Blossomed’: Landscapes, Habitats and the Botanical Poetry of South-West Australia, John Charles Ryan , single work criticism
'Habitat poetry represents the lives of plants, animals and the features of the natural world within their ecological networks. Commonly detailing physical contact with nature, habitat poetry narrates moments in which the senses engage with ecological processes. Additionally, habitat awareness in poetry tends to convey a sense of grappling with scientific discourses. These characterisations of habitat poetry will be articulated in the context of the biodiverse South-West of Western Australia. The works of South-West poets Alec Choate (1915-2010) (Gifts; A Marking; Mind); Andrew Lansdown (1954-); and John Kinsella (1963) (Poems; The New Arcadia) use sensory language to express something about nature and convey the dynamics between science and poetry. The concept of habitat provides an interpretative framework for reading Choate, Lansdown and Kinsella. The three could be described not only as landscape poets but more precisely as habitat poets, a distinction pursued in this discussion.' (Author's abstract)
(p. 26-42)
International Regionalism as American-Australian Dialogue : William James and Henry David Thoreau in John Kinsella’s Jam Tree Gully Poems, Tom Bristow , single work criticism
'Henry David Thoreau's Walden; or Life in the Woods (1854) is America's nineteenth century scriptural call to establish the foundations of nationhood. The epic event of America underwritten by English literature, politics and economics, alongside the idea to self-realise anew and afresh is pregnant with Transcendentalist notions of self-reliance: the triumph of principles and latent convictions that constitute enlightenment within the self.

In Jam Tree Gully Poems (2011) poet John Kinsella mimics this experimental temperate consciousness to outline degrees of freedom that are yoked to a satirical position on the extent that nature (or humans for that matter) can be autonomous. For Thoreau, free will is answered in terms of improvement - to environment and to the spirit. Improvements are accounted for by framing action and events over time. An issue at stake here is: to what extent does Thoreau's desire to project a Protestant sense of improvement rely upon an externality operating on micro and macro scales that is subservient to human experience? In Walden, seasons do not come first; human emotion and intellect precede chronotopic and atmospheric abstractions. Human autonomy within the midst of nature - the central focus of Kinsella's and Thoreau's experiment - offers a Romanticism, a mode of feeling rather than a choice of subject.' (Author's abstract)
(p. 57-74)
Field Guide to 1788, Charles Robert Eliot Dawson , single work review
— Review of The Biggest Estate on Earth : How Aborigines Made Australia Bill Gammage , 2011 single work non-fiction ;
(p. 96 - 106)

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