Bushfire has always been part of our landscape – an integral part – but we have a fraught relationship with it. People choose to live their lives in areas of great natural beauty such as our eucalypt forests, but when they are ablaze they are deadly to all life – human, animal and plant.
In this program about the effect of bushfires, you’ll hear from a range of Australian poets. You’ll also hear poets Jordie Albiston, Lauren Williams and John Jenkins sharing their stories of the communities and environments affected by the Victorian Black Saturday fires of 2009.