Louise Crisp

Louise Crisp’s latest collection is Glide (Puncher & Wattmann 2021). A previous collection Yuiquimbiang (Cordite Books 2019) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. ‘Leafless – Leafs’ was written as part of Stony Creek Collective, a multi-artform collaborative project in the foothill forests of East Gippsland (Gunaikurnai country) in 2020–21. This project was supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.

Articles by Louise Crisp:

Published in Overland Issue 244 Spring 2021 · Poetry

Leafless - leafs

Louise Crisp

(East Gippsland foothill forest: Gunaikurnai country) Words are leafless In the forest some words are too loud Most words belong to someone else The sheen of words precludes listening Leafs wait to be heard Felled: the story between earth and sky

Published in Overland Issue 212 Spring 2013 ·

Podocarpus berries

Louise Crisp

Two weeks after she arrived from Paris, my sister was still coughing up blood, so I took her to the mountains. We headed for Guthega on the headwaters of the Snowy River above the first dam. It was a hot day in late summer.