Ecoimaginings 2021 was held on 11 and 12 December 2021 with over thirty panelists and presenters from all over the world. Here’s a list of books and writings from our participants together with their recommendations for further reading. Do comment and let us know your suggestions.
Recommended Books
An
Ecoimaginings
Reading List
Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer, FSG Originals 2014
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence, Timothy Morton, Columbia University Press 2018
Ecology Without Nature, Timothy Morton, Online
Fox 8, George Saunders, Random House 2013
Ghost Species, James Bradley, Hamish Hamilton 2020
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Amitav Ghosh, University of Chicago 2016
Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore, Ethos Books 2021
Parodoxa, Vol 28 Global Weirding, 2016 (eds. Gerry Canavan & Andrew Hageman)
The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak, Viking 2021
The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood, Penguin Random House 2010
Shadow Dispatches, Polly Atkin, Online
The Song of the Earth, Jonathan Bate, Harvard University Press 2002
Tips for Trying Times – Obligatory Note of Hope, Jenny Offil, Online
Weather, Jenny Offill, Penguin Random House 2020
The Overstory, Richard Powers, WW Norton & Co 2019
Books by our Presenters
Opening
Session
John Whale
Frieze, Carcanet Press 2013
Jennifer Crawford
Koel, Cordite Books 2016
Prof. Benjamin Horton
Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis
Simon Armitage
Ark, on the launch of the ‘Sir David Attenborough’ 2019
In Praise of Air, University of Sheffield 2014
Prof. Graham Huggan
with Helen Tiffin, Postcolonial Ecocriticsm, Routledge 2015
Landmarks:
A
Showcase
of Ecoimagining
Poetry
&
Fiction
Matt Howard
Gall, The Rialto 2018
Vahni (Anthony) Capildeo
Like a Tree, Walking, Carcanet 2021
Romesh Gunesekera
Suncatcher, The New Press 2020
Esther Vincent
Red Earth, Blue Cactus Press 2021
Boey Kim Cheng
Clear Brightness, Epigram Books 2012
Zaffar Kunial
Us, Faber, 2018
Prof. Neil Murphy
The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature, Routledge 2020 (eds. W. Michelle Wang, Daniel K Jerrigan, Neil Murphy)
Panel 1:
The Role of the
Creative Writer
in a Time of
Environmental Crisis
Moderator:
Theophilus Kwek
Panelists:
Jemimah Wei
nth state of matter, Jellyfish Review 2021
Marylyn Tan
Gaze Back, Ethos Books 2018
Matt Howard
Gall, The Rialto 2018
Karina Lickorish Quinn
The Dust Never Settles, Oneworld Publications 2021
Panel 2:
Ecoimaginings
&
the Creative Writing
Classroom
Moderator:
Assistant Professor Kiu-wai Chu
Panelists:
Dr. Merlinda Bobis
Locust Girl: A Lovesong, Spinifex Press 2015
Dr. Sharlene Teo
Ponti, Pan MacMillan 2019
Clare Fisher
All the Good Things, Viking, Penguin 2017
Prof. Helon Habila
Oil on Water, WW Norton 2010
New Fruits:
Creative Eco-Writing from
NTU, NIE & Leeds University
Emerging Writers
The Crimson Sunbird
Moderator:
Dr. Michelle Wang
Participants:
Jamie Uy
Laura Jane Lee
flinch & air, Out-spoken Press 2021
Olga Sjodal
Christopher On
The Great Grey Shrike
Moderator:
Daryl Qilin Yam
Participants:
Cat Chong
Hannah Smith
Jasmine Cheema
Eleanor Richardson
The Mousedeer
Moderator:
Ng Yi-Sheng
Participants:
nor
Singa-Pura-Pura, Ethos Books 2021 (ed. Nazry Bahrawi)
Mackenzie Bradley-Wilkinson
Sara Frisch
Joel Donato Ching Jacob
Wing of the Locust, Scholastic 2018
Closing
Session
Dr Shirley Chew
Arin Alycia Fong
In This Desert, There Were Seeds, Ethos Books/Margaret River Press 2019 (eds. Jon Gresham, Elisabeth Tan)
Madeleine Lee
Flinging the Triplets, Firstfruits Publications 2015
Jason Allen-Paisant
Thinking With Trees, Carcanet Press, 2021