Stage 5 The Anthropocene

Climate speaks

Climate action one liners

Cli-fi stories

The future is now

Suggested literature

Margaret Atwood’s speech ‘Hope and the Everything Change’ https://vimeo.com/118071435 and her letter  ‘Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet’ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/sep/26/margaret-atwood-mini-science-fiction 

Davina Bell’s The End of the World is Bigger than Love

Margaret Bradstock’s poems ‘The Ranger Mine’ and ‘And now the reef’ in Caring for Country: Poetic Responses (Ed. Margaret Bradstock)

Climate Speaks (Young people’s original poems) https://www.climatespeaks.org/performance

Savannah Cox”s poem ‘Mother Earth’ in Maar Bidi: Next generation black writing (Ed’s: Elfie Shiosaki and Linda Martin)

Anthony Eaton’s Nightpeople

Joy Elizabeth’s poem ‘Thylacine Country’ in her anthology Fragile Friday

Kevin Gilbert’s poem ‘The New True Anthem’ in Caring for Country: Poetic Responses (Ed. Margaret Bradstock)

Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner’s video essay for the UN Climate Summit ‘Dear Matafele Peinem’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJuRjy9k7GA

Excerpts from Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour

Ambelin Kwaymullina’s The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf

Alice Major’s poem ‘In medias-res’ https://poets.ca/2019/05/29/in-medias-res-by-alice-major/

Monash University’s online resources with poetry on climate change - https://www.monash.edu/mcccrh/projects/climate-change-poetry

Patrick Ness’ And the Ocean was our Sky

Aden Rolf’s poem ‘The end of things’ in her anthology False Nostalgia

Peter Skrzynecki’s poem ‘Pelicans on Homebush Bay’ in Caring for Country: Poetic Responses (Ed. Margaret Bradstock)  

Solli’s performance poem “Let’s Make More Minutes Count” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDA50VW-mdQ

Louise Wakeling’s poems ‘Stepping in’ and ‘Harbourings’ in Caring for Country: Poetic Responses (Ed. Margaret Bradstock)

Tim Winton’s Eyrie

Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria and The Swan Book

Jodi Lynn Anderson's Midnight at the Electric

Alison Stewart's Days Like This

Michael Mohammed Amad (Ed) After Australian (Short stories)

Ted Strasser's The Beast of Cretacea

Robert Gray's poem "Flames and Dangling Wires"

Brian Blison's poem "Today's Climate Forecast" - https://brianbilston.com/2022/07/19/todays-climate-forecast/ 

Reverse climate poem (palindrome) - http://poets.spice.org.hk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26:our-earth&catid=6:reverse-poem&Itemid=7