Tracing the life and work of Rod Giblett, a leading local wetland conservationist, environmental activist and pioneer transdisciplinary researcher and writer of fiction and non-fiction, Black Swan Song weaves together memoir, essay, story, and criticism. It provides ways of living and being with the earth in dark and troubled times.
Tracing the life and work of Rod Giblett, a leading local wetland conservationist, environmental activist and pioneer transdisciplinary researcher and writer of fiction and non-fiction, Black Swan Song weaves together memoir, essay, story, and criticism. It provides ways of living and being with the earth in dark and troubled times.
Preface I: Early to Later Life and Work 1. Born in Borneo 2. Brought up in Bible College 3. Shaped by Place and Work 4. Some Teachers Who Taught Me Something 5. A Most Homely House and Habitat 6. The Nexus: A Pro-Symbiotic, Anti-Fascist Ecology of Education 7. Farewell to Forrestdale 8. Climbing the Family Trees 9. My Thoreauvian Pilgrimage 10. Closing the Circles 11. The Way of Taoism 12. The Writer's Life 13. The Writer's Desk 14. Wading out of Wetlands 15. The Blue Angel and the Mountain Dragon 16. Up the Inner Passage 17. Tanked Streamed: A Tale of Illness, a Tale of Woe II: Conversations in Conservation Counter-Theology: Twelve Minor Biblical Prophets and Twelve Major Environmental Apostles 18. Hosea and Paul Virilio, the Patron Saint of Grey Ecology 19. Joel and Rachel Carson, the Patron Saint of American Conservation 20. Amos and Aldo Leopold, the Patron Saint of Marshes 21. Obadiah and Judith Wright, the Patron Saint of Australian Conservation 22. Jonah and St Margaret, the Patron Saint of Marshy Motherhood 23. Micah and St George, the Patron Saint of England 24. Nahum and Raymond Williams, the Patron Saint of Ecocultural Studies 25. Habakkuk and St Francis, the Patron Saint of the Earth 26. Zephaniahand Seamus Heaney, the Patron Saint of Bogs 27. Haggaiand Henry David Thoreau, the Patron Saint of Swamps 28. Zechariah and Walter Benjamin, the Patron Saint of Cultural Studies 29. Malachi and John Muir, the Patron Saint of National Parks III: More New Saints: Twelve Minor Environmental Apostles 30. John Clare: The Patron Saint of the Fens 31. Walt Whitman: The Singer of the Song of the Earth 32. Richard Jefferies: The Patron Saint of Being at Home on the Earth 33. H. P. Lovecraft: American Singer of the Song of the Bog 34. Lord Dunsany: The Singer of the Song of the Bog 35. Albert Howard: The Patron Saint of Soil Conservation 36. Elyne Mitchell: The Patron Saint of Australian Soil Conservation 37. Felix Guattari: The Patron Saint of Third Ecology 38. Rebecca Solnit: The Patron Saint of Progressive Politics 39. Glenn Albrecht: The Patron Saint of the Symbiocene 40. John Charles Ryan: The Patron Saint of Plants 41. Charles Massy: The Patron Saint of Regenerative Farming Further Reading/Other Books and Book Chapters by Rod Giblett Bibliography Index About the Author
Preface I: Early to Later Life and Work 1. Born in Borneo 2. Brought up in Bible College 3. Shaped by Place and Work 4. Some Teachers Who Taught Me Something 5. A Most Homely House and Habitat 6. The Nexus: A Pro-Symbiotic, Anti-Fascist Ecology of Education 7. Farewell to Forrestdale 8. Climbing the Family Trees 9. My Thoreauvian Pilgrimage 10. Closing the Circles 11. The Way of Taoism 12. The Writer's Life 13. The Writer's Desk 14. Wading out of Wetlands 15. The Blue Angel and the Mountain Dragon 16. Up the Inner Passage 17. Tanked Streamed: A Tale of Illness, a Tale of Woe II: Conversations in Conservation Counter-Theology: Twelve Minor Biblical Prophets and Twelve Major Environmental Apostles 18. Hosea and Paul Virilio, the Patron Saint of Grey Ecology 19. Joel and Rachel Carson, the Patron Saint of American Conservation 20. Amos and Aldo Leopold, the Patron Saint of Marshes 21. Obadiah and Judith Wright, the Patron Saint of Australian Conservation 22. Jonah and St Margaret, the Patron Saint of Marshy Motherhood 23. Micah and St George, the Patron Saint of England 24. Nahum and Raymond Williams, the Patron Saint of Ecocultural Studies 25. Habakkuk and St Francis, the Patron Saint of the Earth 26. Zephaniahand Seamus Heaney, the Patron Saint of Bogs 27. Haggaiand Henry David Thoreau, the Patron Saint of Swamps 28. Zechariah and Walter Benjamin, the Patron Saint of Cultural Studies 29. Malachi and John Muir, the Patron Saint of National Parks III: More New Saints: Twelve Minor Environmental Apostles 30. John Clare: The Patron Saint of the Fens 31. Walt Whitman: The Singer of the Song of the Earth 32. Richard Jefferies: The Patron Saint of Being at Home on the Earth 33. H. P. Lovecraft: American Singer of the Song of the Bog 34. Lord Dunsany: The Singer of the Song of the Bog 35. Albert Howard: The Patron Saint of Soil Conservation 36. Elyne Mitchell: The Patron Saint of Australian Soil Conservation 37. Felix Guattari: The Patron Saint of Third Ecology 38. Rebecca Solnit: The Patron Saint of Progressive Politics 39. Glenn Albrecht: The Patron Saint of the Symbiocene 40. John Charles Ryan: The Patron Saint of Plants 41. Charles Massy: The Patron Saint of Regenerative Farming Further Reading/Other Books and Book Chapters by Rod Giblett Bibliography Index About the Author
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