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Tracing the life and work of Rod Giblett, a leading local wetland conservationist, environmental activist and pioneer transdisciplinary researcher and writer of fiction and non-fiction, Black Swan Song weaves together memoir, essay, story, and criticism. It provides ways of living and being with the earth in dark and troubled times.
List of contents
Preface
I: Early to Later Life and Work
Born in Borneo Brought up in Bible CollegeShaped by Place and WorkSome Teachers Who Taught Me SomethingA Most Homely House and HabitatThe Nexus: A Pro-Symbiotic, Anti-Fascist Ecology of EducationFarewell to ForrestdaleClimbing the Family TreesMy Thoreauvian Pilgrimage Closing the Circles The Way of Taoism The Writer's Life The Writer's Desk Wading out of Wetlands The Blue Angel and the Mountain Dragon Up the Inner Passage Tanked Streamed: A Tale of Illness, a Tale of WoeII: Conversations in Conservation Counter-Theology: Twelve Minor Biblical Prophets and Twelve Major Environmental Apostles
Hosea and Paul Virilio, the Patron Saint of Grey EcologyJoel and Rachel Carson, the Patron Saint of American ConservationAmos and Aldo Leopold, the Patron Saint of MarshesObadiah and Judith Wright, the Patron Saint of Australian ConservationJonah and St Margaret, the Patron Saint of Marshy MotherhoodMicah and St George, the Patron Saint of EnglandNahum and Raymond Williams, the Patron Saint of Ecocultural StudiesHabakkuk and St Francis, the Patron Saint of the EarthZephaniahand Seamus Heaney, the Patron Saint of BogsHaggaiand Henry David Thoreau, the Patron Saint of SwampsZechariah and Walter Benjamin, the Patron Saint of Cultural StudiesMalachi and John Muir, the Patron Saint of National ParksIII: More New Saints: Twelve Minor Environmental Apostles
John Clare: The Patron Saint of the Fens Walt Whitman: The Singer of the Song of the Earth Richard Jefferies: The Patron Saint of Being at Home on the Earth H. P. Lovecraft: American Singer of the Song of the BogLord Dunsany: The Singer of the Song of the Bog Albert Howard: The Patron Saint of Soil ConservationElyne Mitchell: The Patron Saint of Australian Soil Conservation Felix Guattari: The Patron Saint of Third Ecology Rebecca Solnit: The Patron Saint of Progressive PoliticsGlenn Albrecht: The Patron Saint of the Symbiocene John Charles Ryan: The Patron Saint of Plants Charles Massy: The Patron Saint of Regenerative FarmingFurther Reading/Other Books and Book Chapters by Rod Giblett
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the author
Rod Giblett is Honorary Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Writing and Literature Program of the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University.
Summary
Tracing the life and work of Rod Giblett, a leading local wetland conservationist, environmental activist and pioneer transdisciplinary researcher and writer of fiction and non-fiction, Black Swan Song weaves together memoir, essay, story, and criticism. It provides ways of living and being with the earth in dark and troubled times.
