{"product_id":"words-are-eagles-selected-writings-on-the-nature-language-of-place","title":"Words Are Eagles:  Selected Writings on the Nature \u0026 Language of Place","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWords Are Eagles: Selected Writings on the Nature \u0026amp; Language of Place\u003c\/i\u003e gathers Gregory Day’s beautiful and moving essays on the wonders of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in Australia into one place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWords Are Eagles\u003c\/i\u003e sings with the heightened sense of place and natural world literacy that has long been key to Day’s work. Listening out always for the lost mythologies and languages of place, he tunes his attention to key motifs of ground and sky, ocean and owl, moth and river, while reading and celebrating the work of the resurgent global nature writing movement that has grown up since the publication of his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Patron Saint of Eels\u003c\/i\u003e, in 2005. \u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWords Are Eagles\u003c\/i\u003e entails the kind of nature writing that lies at the heart of what is now our urgent human need to fashion a more harmonious and regenerative relationship with the earth that sustains us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGregory Day\u003c\/strong\u003e is a novelist, poet and musician from the Eastern Otways region of southwest Victoria, Australia. He lives on Wadawurrung tabayl. Gregory has published five novels to date and has won many awards, including the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, the Elizabeth Jolley Prize, the Manly Artist Book Award and the Alfred Deakin Medal. In 2019 Gregory’s most recent novel \u003cem\u003eA Sand Archive\u003c\/em\u003e was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. In 2020 Gregory received the prestigious Patrick White Award for his ongoing body of work, and in 2021 he was awarded the Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing Prize for The Watergaw, an essay contained in this volume.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Upswell Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42238582849591,"sku":null,"price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/7771\/2951\/files\/2286_UP_Words-are-Eagles-front-cover.jpg?v=1779074713","url":"https:\/\/upswell-publishing.myshopify.com\/products\/words-are-eagles-selected-writings-on-the-nature-language-of-place","provider":"Upswell Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}