Bundanon

Lisa Collyer is a writer and educator in Boorloo.

She is the author of two poetry collections, How To Order Eggs Sunny Side Up, (short-listed for The Dorothy Hewett Award) and Gold-digger (to be released in April 2025), both published with Gazebo Books/Life Before Man. Her personal essay, Prolonged Exposure will be published in the anthology, Women of a Certain Courage with Fremantle Press in February 2025. She is widely published in Australian Poetry Anthology, Cordite Poetry Review, Meniscus, Rabbit, and Westerly. She was recently a writer in residence for The National Trust of W.A., and judge of The Tom Collins Poetry Prize.

In Residence at Bundanon

Through immersion into the unceded land of Bundanon, deep valley, I seek to explore the five stages of climate grief, including: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance to create an epic poem for our times. Like Boyd’s artistic legacy, I seek to be experimental with my process to create surprising outcomes. I will set myself challenges to foster slant ways of experiencing the journey from grief to action. Bundanon is the ideal location to immerse in this ambitious work as it encapsulates the ecological loss, First Nations dispossession, artistic interpretation and environmental revegetation and renewal, including harmonious architecture.