Aidensfield – coupe 727-509-0001 (Tambo)
Text by Louise Crisp | photograph by Lisa Roberts
Mt Dow
Epicormic growth blossoms from messmate and manna up Engineers Rd
Fifty kilometres of regenerating logging coupes thin trees – after the fires
mist rain wild wind – the fearsome sound of dead bark against burnt trees:
clack clack clack: forgotten country abandoned land; old mines in the valley
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.
