A Place on Earth (UNSW Press, 2003; University of Nebraska Press, 2004) is my anthology of nature writing from Australia and North America. It starts with an introductory essay in which I managed to say, better than I have, perhaps, said since, some things about nature and nature writing and why they matter so much. My book includes my “Falling Water,” about living in two places at once, both defined by water. But read it for the wonderful prose of…
UNSW Press, 2006
“Reading The Little Red Writing Book is the next best thing to participating in a workshop taught by one of the wisest, most gifted and ingenious writing teachers you could hope to find—precisely what Mark Tredinnick is.” (Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food)
Part meditation on the writing craft, part writing primer, part cry for grace, part manifesto, The Little Red Writing Book is a manual for everyone who wants to write, or…
Like some failed but persistent thief, I’ve lived my life in sentences; some of them are my own, but most of them belong to other people.
What you have here is just about everything I haven’t forgotten from having lived my life that way—listening, reading, writing and teaching. If you get to spend your life that way, you are lucky, and you will have many people to thank for letting you do it, when there may have been,…
(Trinity University Press, 2005)
The Land’s Wild Music (Trinity University Press, 2005) is a road book. According to poet Pattiann Rogers “The Land’s Wild Music is the record of a quest, an odyssey, Mark Tredinnick’s journey of exploration. Focusing on the work, the places, and the lives of four major contemporary writers, Tredinnick’s narrative investigates the complex interconnections existing among the land, language, and the human spirit.” My road took me, specifically, through the Cascades in Western Oregon,…
As well as these three works, I have edited three collections of Australian writing. Each appeared as an issue of a literary journal, which I jointly guest-edited:
- 1. Watermarks, 64/2 of Southerly, 2004. This collection of ecocriticism and nature writing in prose and poetry gathers selections from the first Watermark Festival of Nature Writing. It includes an editorial by me about that event and about the state and place of nature writing in Australia.
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