|
Title: Win 1/10 copies of ‘Signs & Wonders” books Post by: culturebird on Thursday 30 September 2021, 01:16:30 pm (http://www.booktopia.com.au/covers/500/9781760857820/4607/signs-and-wonders.jpg)
Win one of 10 copies if Signs and Wonders by Delia Falconer. To enter tell us the name of one of the two acclaimed essays by this author. https://www.goodreadingmagazine.com.au/competition/form/index/product_id/298934 In Signs and Wonders, Falconer explores how it feels to live as a reader, a writer, a lover of nature and a mother of small children in an era of profound ecological change. Building on Falconer’s two acclaimed essays, ‘Signs and Wonders’ and the Walkley Award-winning ‘The Opposite of Glamour’, Signs and Wonders is a pioneering examination of how we are changing our culture, language and imaginations along with our climate. Is a mammoth emerging from the permafrost beautiful or terrifying? How is our imagination affected when something that used to be ordinary – like a car windscreen smeared with insects – becomes unimaginable? What can the disappearance of the paragraph from much contemporary writing tell us about what’s happening in the modern mind? Scientists write about a 'great acceleration' in human impact on the natural world. Signs and Wonders shows that we are also in a period of profound cultural acceleration, which is just as dynamic, strange, extreme and, sometimes, beautiful. Ranging from an ‘unnatural’ history of coal to the effect of a large fur seal turning up in the park below her apartment, this book is a searching and poetic examination of the ways we are thinking about how, and why, to live now. |