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Words Are Eagles
A collection of beautiful and moving essays on the wonder of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in Australia
Words are Eagles collects in one place the essays of award-winning novelist and nature writer, Gregory Day. Grounded in the landscape of southwestern Victoria, and infused with the heightened sense of place and environmental literacy that have long been key to Day's work, these essays traverse landscape, language and histories.
Day's attention is tuned both to beauty of the natural world, returning often to the motifs of ground and sky, ocean and owl, moth and river, and the history of place - whether lost, buried or personal.
In a part a reading and celebration of the resurgent global nature writing movement, to which Day was an early contributor, this collection highlights the need for ecological care and value of Indigenous knowledge and practices.
This is the kind of nature writing that gets to the heart of our urgent need for a more harmonious and regenerative relationship with the earth that sustains us
Words are Eagles collects in one place the essays of award-winning novelist and nature writer, Gregory Day. Grounded in the landscape of southwestern Victoria, and infused with the heightened sense of place and environmental literacy that have long been key to Day's work, these essays traverse landscape, language and histories.
Day's attention is tuned both to beauty of the natural world, returning often to the motifs of ground and sky, ocean and owl, moth and river, and the history of place - whether lost, buried or personal.
In a part a reading and celebration of the resurgent global nature writing movement, to which Day was an early contributor, this collection highlights the need for ecological care and value of Indigenous knowledge and practices.
This is the kind of nature writing that gets to the heart of our urgent need for a more harmonious and regenerative relationship with the earth that sustains us
- GenresNonfiction21st Century
337 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 5, 2022
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Gregory Day
18 books17 followersGregory Day is an Australian novelist, poet and musician who is best known for his Mangowak novels,
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July 3, 2023
Parts 1 and 2 were my favourite, as he explores the colonial settler descendant conflict of being in a place but not being of the place, yet not having anywhere else to be “of.” A friend described the essay collection perfectly - like a rich meal, it can’t be eaten too quickly. I found this essay collection through a reference to learning Indigenous languages, but found myself noting down whole paragraphs from many of the essays. And I know his heart land well - Lorne and the Great Ocean Road - so could see the landscape he writes about.
February 1, 2025
Love this book! Finally, local landscape writing! What a joy to read.
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