Until fairly recently – until civilization – nature was a subject, not an object. In hunter-gatherer societies no strict division or hierarc...

I've been reading John Zerzan's Running on Emptiness , in which he describes a small group of Europeans who collectively call themse...

It's been five years since I made this public work in Werribee, Victoria, completed not long after having had the realisation that poeti...

As many of you know we're currently attempting to establish a quarter acre garden as a dynamic food forest. However, it's not only p...

Today Zeph and I helped this local goose free from a fishing hook stuck in her neck. Read more here .

Meg and I displaying the commonsense adage of our grandparents' generation at this year's New Years Eve parade in Daylesford. Thanks...

There's so much to speak to today. Here's the local news: Firstly, my friend Josh, who I write about in the special bike issue of Gr...

George Monbiot in Copenhagen... This is a meeting about chemicals: the greenhouse gases insulating the atmosphere. But it is also a battle b...

The only member of the Artist as Family born at home.

Special Bike Issue. Environmental writer Derrick Jensen believes the only level of technology truly sustainable was developed in the Stone A...

What are your ethics when it comes to food? Is there an honourable way to kill an animal, or does all meat eating rely on merciless acts of ...

A few weeks ago Jason Workman and I pulled the pin on a funded trip to the US scheduled for next year. Our practice has always included a cr...

For a full report on our garden under early-heat-wave duress as well as a new recipe, read my Garden Notes for Relocalisation .

A poem for Jonathan Skinner and mIEKAL aND .

Albatross chick photographed by Chris Jordan. If you’ve read this column before you will know that I have more than a passing interest in an...

detail: Jones, P. ‘A Free-dragging Manifesto’, pp. 41-43, ecopoetics , no. 6/7 2006-2009, Australian Ecopoetics Feature, eds. Michael Farrel...

This TED talk is brilliant! An exposé of the health of the world's oceans.

We're back from our waste gleaning residence in Newcastle, NSW. Our final post on the Artist as Family blog includes a short creative d...

While it’s true that Western culture is the sum of its many, varied parts, the dominant paradigm can be packed into two obsessions – privati...

Reading The Australian newspaper is normally a very distressing thing for me – the underweight ballerinas/models, the overweight businessmen...

Otherwise known as pop-fascism. From our project over here .

It has been really wet here. I like to think Josh, Ziggy and I had something to do with it. We went into the bush a few days ago and Rain Da...

The first online site I created was justfreewater , a site dedicated to platforming the woes of bottled water. In the past three years since...

WorkmanJones' latest offering.

I have just returned from a poetics symposium at UWS organised by Kate Fagan and chaired by Ivor Indyk. Some of the things discussed involve...

I gave my Processes of Circularity: Permapoesis and the Shed of Interrelation presentation today as part of the panel Understanding the Val...

Glen Dunn recently made a short film about a kiln firing in Southern Tasmania, posted it online and found an unexpected viral enthusiasm fo...