The Grassling
In The Grassling, Burnett manages to write so elegantly and touchingly about nature, and what people can learn from it, that big issues suddenly feel more tangible.
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In Search of Better Skies: An Interview with Jennifer Neal
On the 8th of July 2020, Jennifer Neal joined us on zoom and gave us some insights into her work. She is an Australian-American writer, artist and occasional stand-up comedian who currently lives in Berlin. She has published short stories and a wide array of journalistic articles and essays, and has recently finished a novel. Jennifer talked to us about writing nature and environment, and shared some thoughts on speculative fiction.
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(Post-)Colonialism and the Botanical Gardens at Potsdam
Understanding botanical gardens as colonial sites seems particularly difficult: their plant inhabitants present themselves as too innocent, too splendid and too lively to be associated with colonial violence, white appropriation and hegemonic systems of knowledge production.
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“In Search of Better Skies”
Jennifer Neal’s short story, “In Search of Better Skies”, was published in The Willowherb Review in 2019 and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. In it, Neal’s narrator describes the major movements of her grandfather’s life.
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Dark Emu
When I started reading Bruce Pascoe’s account of “Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture”, as Dark Emu is billed on the cover, I must confess I didn’t expect it to be page-turner. But it is.
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Turning: A Swimming Memoir
In her book Turning: A Swimming Memoir, Jessica J. Lee relates how swimming in the lakes of Berlin and Brandenburg not only helped her feel at home in this region, but also helped her work through a painful love story and childhood fears.
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Two Trees Make a Forest
Jessica J. Lee’s Two Trees Make a Forest is part ode to Taiwan, part loving meditation on the natural world, and part investigative journey into a family’s lost histories.
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Green Library: Event Series
Poco.Lit. is delighted to announce our event series GREEN LIBRARY.
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