Travelling Alone /Ruby Camp

Louise Crisp is a writer and environmental activist based in East Gippsland. Her poetry collection Ruby Camp: a Snowy River series was published by Spinifex Press in 1998. Other collections include pearl & sea fed (Hazard Press NZ) which was shortlisted for NSW Premiers’ Awards in 1995 and Uplands (Five Islands Press 2007). Recent work has been published in: Cordite http://cordite.org.au/poetry/constraint/gibsons-folly-tambo-river/ Southerly http://southerlyjournal.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/74.2_LP-Louise-Crisp.pdf Plumwood Mountain http://plumwoodmountain.com/from-wild-succession/ A long poem Grasses on the Snowy River and Monaro grasslands incorporating field recordings and original music is available on-line at http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/poetica/grasses/3066184 Louise is currently finalising a manuscript of eco-poetic texts focusing on the Snowy Mountains and Gippsland regions with the support of an Australia Council New Work Grant. Miriel Lenore is an Adelaide poet whose seven books frequently focus on the interrelation of people and place. Her 22 years in Fiji and 20 years visiting a community in the Ngaanyatjarra lands have influenced her work. She won the Red Earth Award in 1994. travelling alone together: in the steps of Edward John Eyre (1997) has featured twice on the ABC Poetica program. sun wind & diesel(1997) has been a text at the Universities of Adelaide and Cologne and featured in an Australian studies course in Poland. The third book of her Grandmothers’ Trilogy, a wild kind of tune, was published in 2015, joining drums and bonnets (2003) and the Dog Rock (2005). in the garden (2007), set in the Adelaide Botanic Garden, was part of the Garden’s 150th anniversary celebrations, with an exhibition and featured readings. Miriel, with Mary Moore, wrote the text for Moore’s multi media production, Master Key, at the 1998 Adelaide and Perth Festivals and edited Doris Kartinyeri’s Kick the Tin. In 2012, she received the Barbara Polkinghorne Award for her services to women through literature.