Bulls Roar – coupe 735-510-0028 (Tambo)
Text by Louise Crisp | photograph by Lisa Roberts
Bulls Roar
Preventing the future
The new face of the forest turns west defying the sun along two kilometres
of Rain Gauge Creek: damp & cool behind the wall of old trees guarding
the green-lit ferny shade until the next drought borne inferno rushes down
across the far-felled flattened lands of Bull’s Roar coupe to vaporise a grove
Louise Crisp is the author of
Yuiquimbiang (Cordite Books 2019) shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards in 2020; and
Glide (Puncher & Wattman 2021). In 2025 Louise was awarded a Marion Orme Page Regional Creative Fellowship by the State Library of Victoria for her project
Bogong to research the archives of high-country ecologist Maisie Fawcett (S. G. M. Carr 1912-1988). “Dry Mountains” is part of the
Bogong project, a work in progress.
https://www.louisecrisp.com/
Lisa Roberts is a photographer who chases bats, blossom, disappearing trees and epic landscapes. She lives and works in Gippsland on unceded Gunnai Kurnai Country. Her current project is The future is a big sky. A survey of old forests scheduled for logging and burning. Her recent exhibition was Flying Foxes and Disappearing Trees at East Gippsland Art Gallery.
