Swamp: Walking the Wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain - Paperback

by Nandi Chinna (Author)

Chinna uncovers the lost places that exist beneath the townscape of Perth. For the last four years the poet has walked the wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain - and she has walked the paths and streets where the wetlands once were.

Chinna writes with great poignancy and beauty of our inability to return, and the ways in which we can use the dual practice of writing and walking to reclaim what we have lost. Her poems speak with urgency about wetlands that are under threat from development today.

Author Biography

Nandi Chinna is a writer and environmental activist. She is the author of the poetry collections Our Only Guide Is Our Homesickness and How to Measure Land, which won the 2010 Picaro Press Byron Bay Writers Festival Poetry Prize.