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“The kind of writing that makes most difference identifies with humanity, with all beings, in their beauty and in their need and in their contradictions.”
—Mark Tredinnick
“Poetry: The Permanent Revolution,” In the 4th Anniversary Edition, Live Encounters Poetry & Writing Volume Three November-December 2023.
“The Ceremony of All Being: Jidi Majia’s ‘Promised Land,’” June 2023
Preface to House of Thieves in connection with the Golden Antelope Prize. “A Slow Thief’s Thank-you Note,” Chinese Translation of 100 Poems,” June 2023
“To Sing, To Say: A Lyric Ethics for Coming into Country,” In The Griffith Review no.80, May 2023
Preface: “How to Love Like a Mountain: The Third Coming of Liu Sanjie,” March 2023
“The Silence a Mother Leaves; or, Heather, that Heathy Flower,” For Heather Tredinnick, April 2022
“Old Beginnings; or a Beginner’s Guide,” In the introduction to A Beginner’s Guide, 2022
“The Dissenter’s Discourse,” Afterword to Walking Underwater, 2021
“Gathering Your Distances,” Introduction to A Gathered Distance, 2020
“The Inhumanities; Or, the war on the humanities & why our humanity is at stake,” 2020
“Digital Platform Featured Poet Conversation/ Interview with MarkTredinnick," The Blue Nib, 2020
Interview, Stylus 2020
“I am Nobody; Who Are You?” Eureka Street, 2019
“Fall in the Highlands,” Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald, March 2019
“On World Poetry Day,” University of Sydney News & Opinion, 2018
“The Poem & the Place,” Xichang International Poetry Festival, 2018
“The Temple of the Word,” In Hearth, Milkweed, 2018
“Nourishing Terrains,”The Sydney Review of Books, October 2018
“The Poem & the Place,” Xichang Silk Road International Poetry Festival, 2018
“The Arc of Story,” Introduction to Seeking Horizons, SCWC, 2014
“The Idiom of Love,” Introduction to Australian Love Poems, MT (ed), 2013
“Speaking of Love,” Southerly Journal, 23 August 2013
“A Wrap: As if We Were Just Out of Reach of Ourselves,” Southerly Journal, 31 August 2013
“A Peaceable Revolution” The Republic We Have to Have,” in Project Republic, Mark McKenna and Benjamin Jones (eds), Allen & Unwin, 2013
“Getting Over Your Self,” Introduction to Sparks, University of Sydney, 2012
“Prize Life; Praise Life,” Introduction to Australian Award-Winning Writing, 2012
“Speech Music: On Vishvarupa,” ABR, 2012
“The Lyric Stance,” Island Journal 126, 2011
“The Weather of Who We Are,” 2011, from Australia’s Wild Weather, (broadcast on Okham’s Razor)
“Nature & Me,” 2012
“Nature’s Writing,” 2012
“The Gospel of Mark,” Victorian Writer, 2012
“The Cool Web,” Giramondo, 2010
“The Candle,” Island, No.120, August 2010
“Mustering the Sky,” World Literature Today, No24, p.170–174, 2009
“A Portrait of the Artist as Half a Dozen Places,” Meanjin, Vol 69, No1, Autumn 2009
“Original Country,” In Let There Be Night, Paul Borage (ed), 2008, Nevada
“A Storm & a Teacup,” winner of the Calibre Essay prize 2008, ABR
“Days of Christmas,” winner of the Wildcare Nature Prize 2007; Best Australian Essays
“Eleven-and-a-Half Reasons to Unseat a Government,” 29 October 2007
“Beneath the Mountain & Beside a Creek: Robert Gray and the Shepherding of Australian Being,” In The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts & Their Writers, Cranston & Zeller, (eds), Rodopi, NY, 2007
“Days in the Plateau,” Kunapipi, Vol XXIX (“Birds”), No2, 2007
“A Faster Kind of Sandstone,” 2007
“Watermarks,” introductory essay to the anthology of pieces from Watermark 2003. Southerly, Vol. 64. No.2.
“Catchment,” Island, Vol. 93–94, 2003
“Falling Water,” In A Place on Earth, New South, 2003
“Belonging to Here,” Introduction to A Place on Earth, 2003
“Writing the Wild: Place, Prose and the Ecological Imagination,” 2003
“Nothing But the Truth: on the Nature of the Essay,” Quadrant, September 1998