Summertime

Reflections On a Vanishing Future

Danielle Celermajer, Felicity Jurd

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Bolinda/Penguin Audio Australia
02 February 2021

The environment

'I went and sat alone where Jimmy has been lying. It is way down in the bush. The light is soft, the air and the earth are cool and the smell is of leaves and the river. I cannot presume to know what he is doing when he lies here, but it seems that he is taking himself back to an ecology not wrought by the terror of the fires, not fuelled by our violence on the earth. He is letting another earth heal him.'

Philosopher Danielle Celermajer’s story of Jimmy the pig caught the world’s attention during the Black Summer of 2019-20.

Gathered here is that story and others written in the shadow of the bushfires that ravaged Australia. In the midst of the death and grief of animals, humans, trees and ecologies Celermajer asks us to look around – really look around – to become present to all beings who are living and dying through the loss of our shared home.

At once a howl in the forest and an elegy for a country’s soul, these reflections are lyrical, profound and heartbreaking.

By: Danielle Celermajer
Read by: Felicity Jurd
Imprint: Bolinda/Penguin Audio Australia
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Simultaneous Release
Dimensions: Height: 122mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 113g
ISBN: 9781867515661
ISBN 10: 1867515660
Publication Date: 02 February 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

An academic at the University of Sydney, Danielle Celermajer has written two previous books for Cambridge, the top publisher in her field (The Prevention of Torture, and The Sins of the Nation and the Ritual of Apologies). She has contributed to other books with Bloomsbury, Stanford and Routledge. She is a regular on RN’s ‘The Minefield’ with Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens and ‘The Philosopher’s Zone’. She has also written for the SMH, the Guardian and the Conversation. Felicity Jurd is an Australian actress, voice artist and writer. She has had extensive voice and acting training at institutions including the Australian Theatre for Young People, Atlantic Theater Company in New York and LAMDA in London. On stage, she is best known for playing May in I May Fly which toured Sydney, New York and London (2006 - 2008). Her screen credits include Doctor Doctor, Home & Away, Dust, A Country Practice and The Drover's Wife.

Reviews for Summertime: Reflections On a Vanishing Future

'For anyone who takes comfort in the companionship of the animals, the swift grace of birds, the grandeur of tress ... Read this. Now.' -- Geraldine Brooks, bestselling author