Description
Book SynopsisTracing 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.
Table of ContentsPreface
I: Early to Later Life and Work
- Born in Borneo
- Brought up in Bible College
- Shaped by Place and Work
- Some Teachers Who Taught Me Something
- A Most Homely House and Habitat
- The Nexus: A Pro-Symbiotic, Anti-Fascist Ecology of Education
- Farewell to Forrestdale
- Climbing the Family Trees
- My 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 Woe
II: Conversations in Conservation Counter-Theology: Twelve Minor Biblical Prophets and Twelve Major Environmental Apostles
- Hosea and Paul Virilio, the Patron Saint of Grey Ecology
- Joel and Rachel Carson, the Patron Saint of American Conservation
- Amos and Aldo Leopold, the Patron Saint of Marshes
- Obadiah and Judith Wright, the Patron Saint of Australian Conservation
- Jonah and St Margaret, the Patron Saint of Marshy Motherhood
- Micah and St George, the Patron Saint of England
- Nahum and Raymond Williams, the Patron Saint of Ecocultural Studies
- Habakkuk and St Francis, the Patron Saint of the Earth
- Zephaniahand Seamus Heaney, the Patron Saint of Bogs
- Haggaiand Henry David Thoreau, the Patron Saint of Swamps
- Zechariah and Walter Benjamin, the Patron Saint of Cultural Studies
- Malachi and John Muir, the Patron Saint of National Parks
III: 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 Bog
- Lord Dunsany: The Singer of the Song of the Bog
- Albert Howard: The Patron Saint of Soil Conservation
- Elyne Mitchell: The Patron Saint of Australian Soil Conservation
- Felix Guattari: The Patron Saint of Third Ecology
- Rebecca Solnit: The Patron Saint of Progressive Politics
- Glenn Albrecht: The Patron Saint of the Symbiocene
- John Charles Ryan: The Patron Saint of Plants
- Charles Massy: The Patron Saint of Regenerative Farming
Further Reading/Other Books and Book Chapters by Rod Giblett
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
