Loggers camp – Mt Dow (Tambo)
Text by Louise Crisp | photograph by Louise Crisp
Mt Dow Loggers Camp
Tambo Bay a neck of land in distant pale water
Heavy rain washes red mud into Haunted Stream
Leafs on a stem east and west all the way to Mt Baldhead:
salvage coupes – loggers peel forest off the living hillside
Louise Crisp’s latest collection is Glide published by Puncher and Wattman (2021). A previous collection Yuiquimbiang (Cordite Books 2019) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and highly commended in the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize. Her work focuses on specific regional environments of south-eastern Australia and experiments with the formal possibilities of integrating poetics and environmental activism. Crisp lives in East Gippsland on the unceded lands of the Gunaikurnai nation.
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.
