Cirrus@Austlit

'The strength of the Newcastle Poetry Prize is that it encourages both emerging and more established writers to test out new work of an extended nature. We congratulate the winning, commended and shortlisted poets and would like to encourage all who entered, and who keep on with the task of writing poetry.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Issue 27 Transitions: Ecopoetics from the Global South arrives at a time of uncertainty—which is perhaps a cliché to say now— but also at the titular time of transitions. Extremely rapidly, the earth and our climates are changing and we are adapting the way we live in order to sustain life. As writers and creators, we are attempting to make sense of these transitions, to deconstruct our human damages, to imagine futures, and discern meaning and hold a lens to the current and the past. This collection of ecopoetry,  fiction and nonfiction offers fresh insights on climate and environmental discourse from across Australia and the global south. ' (Publication introduction)