Issues
4. Family / Tree
This issue of Wonderground is overflowing with inspiring, exciting and cup-filling ideas, stories and conversations. Just like a healthy forest ecosystem, there’s a diversity of light and dark, hope and wonder. In fact, consider the fourth issue of Wonderground a forest itself – a window into worlds personal and mythical, ideas alive and ageless; a place mysterious and mad, meaningful and beautiful.
Alive with Rock and Tree
Essays, GardensGeorgina Reid on gardening and love in the Anthropocene.
Tree Songs: Paul Kelly and Siân Darling in conversation
Conversations, CultureWonderground guest poetry editors Paul Kelly and Siân Darling chat with Georgina Reid.
Up the Back
Culture, MemoirAward-winning author Inga Simpson dusts off her wildest self among trampled trees, thistles and birdsong.
The Heart of the Forest: A conversation with David Lindenmayer
Conversations, EcologyWorld-renowned forest ecologist David Lindenmayer chats with Georgina Reid.
Pining for Placefulness
Culture, MemoirRicha Kaul Padte contends with the power of nostalgia.
Tree Rites
EcologyA new project grows ritual, connection and trees on Sydney’s streets.
Undercurrent
Culture, EcologyTanya Massy walks upstream with Richard Swain, amid questions of custodianship and Country.
Northern Rivers
PoetryA poem by Paul Kelly.
Patterns Of Time
Culture, EcologyElla Mudie explores the stories told by tree rings.
Good Country
Agriculture, Ecology, MemoirGeorgina Reid remembers a childhood planting trees.
Acts Of Co-Creation
Art & DesignArtist Sammy Hawker gives voice and visual expression to the more-than-human worlds that vibrate around, and with, us.
Gardening The Silence
Culture, Essays, MemoirJane Gleeson-White faces dark histories of war and trauma with help from an olive tree.
Root and Branch
Art & DesignNeha Kale profiles three artists who re-imagine ideas of kinship and ask us to look closely at ties that bind.
Laws of Nature
CultureJess Bineth talks power and possibility with a lawyer on a mission to gain legal protection for Australia’s natural wonders.
Tiny Tree Tales
BotanicaSix short stories about trees.
Song of Myself, Section 52
PoetryA poem by Walt Whitman, introduced by Siân Darling.
Know your (Black) Garden History
GardensAbra Lee finds freedom, sorority and affirmation in Black horticultural stories.
