Skol: 11 // Steve Giasson : 11

Text comissioned by Skol for Steve Giasson's exhibition 1

Science in neo-Victorian poetry

This article considers the work of three contemporary poets and their engagement, in verse, with Victorian science. Beginning with the outlandish ‘theories’ of Mick Imlah’s ‘The Zoologist’s Bath’ (1983), it moves on to two works of biografiction – Anthony Thwaite’s poem ‘At Marychurch’ (1980), which outlines Philip Henry Gosse’s doomed attempts to unite evolution and Christianity, and Ruth Padel’s Darwin: A Life in Poems (2009). Starting off with John Glendening’s idea that science in neo-Victorian fiction, if fully embraced, provides an opportunity for self-revelation to characters, this article explores the rather less happy resolutions of each of these poems, while in addition discussing the ways in which these poems perform the formal changes and mutability discussed within them

After Vanessa Place / Naomi Toth and Vanessa Place

Coming and going after is Echo’s affair; it is also the stuff of conversational pursuit. After Vanessa Place is an email exchange between poet and artist Vanessa Place and critic Naomi Toth on the backsides of speech and sight, where repeating and being conflate and confound in the trialectic of message, meaning, and motion. To be read as it is, or backwards, after the manner of history. And, echoing history, what’s missed calls for more

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A report of direct mortality in grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) from the 2019-2020 Australian megafires

Study of the impacts of the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires on flying-foxes has mainly focused on the effects of burnt habitat on food availability. It has previously only been assumed that flying-foxes probably died directly from these bushfires. We report an eyewitness account of numbers of grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) being killed as they attempted to escape a bushfire engulfing a flying-fox camp in Jeremadra, New South Wales. Once in the air, most of the flying-foxes dropped to the ground, scattering carcasses throughout the vicinity. This observation represents the only eyewitness report of flying-fox mortalities occurring directly from these bushfires. Given the substantial proportion of the grey-headed flying-fox range affected by these bushfires, we infer that such mortalities likely occurred in other locations

Achievements of the People in Place Project to Date (October 2005)

Achievements to date (October 2005) extracted from the end-of-year report submitted to the AHRC for the People in Place projec

Edited Summary of the Application to the Arts and Humanities Research Board (November 2002) for the People in Place Research Project

Edited summary of the application to the Arts and Humanities Research Board (November 2002), outlining aims, objectives and methodology of the People in Place research projec