Yuiquimbiang

Louise Crisp, Bruce Pascoe

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English

Cordite Books
15 January 2019

Poetry; Literature: history & criticism

Australians hear the call of Country, but without knowledge of the history and the lives of its animals and plants, that call is confused and loses itself in opal fields and vainglorious stockman's museums. Follow Crisp: not for her the umbrella on the beach and a martini by the chlorinated pool. She is enmeshed with Country and throws herself into its wild embrace.

'Yuiquimbiang is part of an ongoing project to create an ecopoetic form that integrates political essay and environmental poetics: a project that evolved out of my double life as a poet and environmental activist. It was driven by a desire to develop a radical ecopoetic form that would effectively communicate Australia's ecological crisis as encountered in two specific regions

East Gippsland and the Monaro

and enact an alternative inhabitation of the land.

The series of mainly long-form texts in this collection is grounded in extensive walking, listening and research. A concomitant slow reading is encouraged. In the drafts, the work included detailed references that have been distilled here in the notes section at the end. I have spent decades attending to this place, and continue to search for a glimpse of the pre-European grasslands and forests and celebrate their rare survival. The work attempts to defy the continuing colonial violence that permits and supports the undoing of the land.

'Yuiquimbiang' is the first recorded European mishearing / misrepresentation of a Ngarigu word, written down by John Lhotsky in 1834 as the name of a Monaro run, which later became known as Eucumbene. The Eucumbene River, once referred to as the East Branch of the Snowy River, was excluded from the 2002 intergovernmental agreements to return environmental flows to the Snowy.' - Louise Crsip

By: Louise Crisp
Introduction by: Bruce Pascoe
Imprint: Cordite Books
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 221mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780648056898
ISBN 10: 0648056899
Pages: 116
Publication Date: 15 January 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Louise Crisp is a writer based in East Gippsland. Her work focuses on specific regional environments, particularly in south-eastern Australia, northern Australia and Provence, France.

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Yuiquimbiang

Louise Crisp, Bruce Pascoe

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