Swamp : walking the wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain / Nandi Chinna.

By: Chinna, Nandi [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Fremantle, Western Australia : Fremantle Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 130 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781922089489 :Subject(s): Australian poetry -- 21st century | Poetry -- Englidh -- Australia -- 21st century -- Texts | Wetlands -- Australia -- Swan Coastal Plain (W.A.) -- Poetry | Wetlands | Wetlands -- Western Australia -- Swan Coastal Plain -- Poetry | Swan Coastal Plain (W.A.) -- Poetry | Western Australia -- Swan Coastal Plain | Australian poetry | AustralianGenre/Form: Poetry. | Poetry. DDC classification: A821.4 LOC classification: PR9619.3
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Writing on Water -- A Line Made by Walking -- Boardwalk -- Mud Pie -- The City -- Shoes -- Sinking a Well, 1832 -- Boundaries -- Swan River Fish, 14th September 1832 -- Kingsford's Mill in Perth -- 1862 -- The Ghost Road -- Clearing the Swamp -- Njookenbooroo -- Fong Gow -- Catherine Kelly -- The Night Man's Wife -- House of Mercy -- The Earth Closet -- The Newcomer -- Silent Morning -- Yarning Circle -- The Watermen -- Riparian Zone, Urban -- Electric Creek -- Transit -- Illia Kuri -- Walters Brook -- commune bonum: A common good -- Washing Lane -- Hydrology -- Cranes -- Watts Road Lake -- Drain -- The Collector -- The TBM Operator -- Pelicans -- The Swan River Warrior -- Old Bottle Yard Site, Robertson Park -- Cut and Paste Lake -- Mud Man (or how to sleep in mud) -- Beautiful Weeds -- Herdsman Lake Walking Poet -- The Mt Lawley Wanjina -- Graceful Sun Moth -- City as Boat -- Dragonfly Lake -- Great Egret Lake -- Campanile Tower -- Foragers --
Contents note continued: Champion Lakes Regatta Centre -- The Speed of Thoughts -- Anima -- Dixon Reserve -- Swamp Walking -- Manning Ridge -- Bird Watching White Fella Style -- Noctuary -- Bibra Lake (Walliabup) Bird Hide, 1 -- Bibra Lake (Walliabup) Bird Hide, 2 -- Horse Paddock Swamp -- Looking for Shirley Balla -- Frog Swamp -- The Fish -- Stones -- Estuary -- Point Walter Spit -- Precipitation Cycles -- Swan River Canyon -- The Black Swan -- Gilbert Fraser Reserve, Swan River -- White Swans -- The Language of Drainage -- Banks to Bardon Pathway -- The Eye -- The Furthest Shore.
Summary: Chinna uncovers the lost places that exist beneath the townscape of Perth. For the last four years the poet has walked the wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain - and she has walked the paths and streets where the wetlands once were. Chinna writes with great poignancy and beauty of our inability to return, and the ways in which we can use the dual practice of writing and walking to reclaim what we have lost. Her poems speak with urgency about wetlands that are under threat from development today.
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Machine generated contents note: Writing on Water -- A Line Made by Walking -- Boardwalk -- Mud Pie -- The City -- Shoes -- Sinking a Well, 1832 -- Boundaries -- Swan River Fish, 14th September 1832 -- Kingsford's Mill in Perth -- 1862 -- The Ghost Road -- Clearing the Swamp -- Njookenbooroo -- Fong Gow -- Catherine Kelly -- The Night Man's Wife -- House of Mercy -- The Earth Closet -- The Newcomer -- Silent Morning -- Yarning Circle -- The Watermen -- Riparian Zone, Urban -- Electric Creek -- Transit -- Illia Kuri -- Walters Brook -- commune bonum: A common good -- Washing Lane -- Hydrology -- Cranes -- Watts Road Lake -- Drain -- The Collector -- The TBM Operator -- Pelicans -- The Swan River Warrior -- Old Bottle Yard Site, Robertson Park -- Cut and Paste Lake -- Mud Man (or how to sleep in mud) -- Beautiful Weeds -- Herdsman Lake Walking Poet -- The Mt Lawley Wanjina -- Graceful Sun Moth -- City as Boat -- Dragonfly Lake -- Great Egret Lake -- Campanile Tower -- Foragers --

Contents note continued: Champion Lakes Regatta Centre -- The Speed of Thoughts -- Anima -- Dixon Reserve -- Swamp Walking -- Manning Ridge -- Bird Watching White Fella Style -- Noctuary -- Bibra Lake (Walliabup) Bird Hide, 1 -- Bibra Lake (Walliabup) Bird Hide, 2 -- Horse Paddock Swamp -- Looking for Shirley Balla -- Frog Swamp -- The Fish -- Stones -- Estuary -- Point Walter Spit -- Precipitation Cycles -- Swan River Canyon -- The Black Swan -- Gilbert Fraser Reserve, Swan River -- White Swans -- The Language of Drainage -- Banks to Bardon Pathway -- The Eye -- The Furthest Shore.

Chinna uncovers the lost places that exist beneath the townscape of Perth. For the last four years the poet has walked the wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain - and she has walked the paths and streets where the wetlands once were. Chinna writes with great poignancy and beauty of our inability to return, and the ways in which we can use the dual practice of writing and walking to reclaim what we have lost. Her poems speak with urgency about wetlands that are under threat from development today.

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