Tim Loveday

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Ethno-ethical-geographic-dating rituals or critical climate crisis: critical or Anthropo[seen] or massified taxonomies of lost-wilderness [lost] or how to be spell A for abstract without any BEEs Ask the mountain why it slouches Ethnographic submersions interspecies, intermodal interdisciplinary, non-hierarchal engagements Geographical non-specificity Landslide geomorphologies Insecure landscapes Inhibited geologies Ask the river its personality type Dialectics: more-human-than-human waterhole re-homed translucent storytelling as prerequisite to sodden disclaimers wet willy weaving current discourses on current discourses Ask the leaf what comes next flittering perspectives whistling mediations cross-pollinated cross-communal bough-ing frames of reference i as cloud system as i as seeding unbranched imperatives skies the limited range burnside engendering Ask the countryside where’s the map DFATigue funding anamorphic 3rd space as proposed plurality physical geographies manifest as intangible outcomes pre-Anthropocene as pre-green-bank-banking nutrient rich riches unilateral incorporations of corporations banking on repurposed pre-pre- re-imagined anti-futures un-curatorial-ised problematising of post-open plan life cycles bilateral integrations of absence bulldozer rhetorics

Tim Loveday is a poet, writer, educator and baby academic. His work explores class, masculinity, online radicalisation, rurality and climate collapse. He won the 2022 & 2024 Dorothy Porter Poetry Awards and the 2023 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award, came runner-up in the 2024 Cloncurry Poetry Prize and was a finalist in the 2023 David Harold Tribe Poetry Prize, the 2024 Griffith Review Emerging Voices Prize, the 2024 Best Australian Yarn and the 2024 Montreal International Poetry Prize. Tim teaches Creative Writing at Unimelb and RMIT. He is a current PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Unimelb. You can find out more at https://www.timloveday.com/.

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swim meet lit mag is a young online publication based in Brisbane, Australia. Swim meets bring people together; swim meet lit mag seeks to offer an accessible space to read and publish all kinds of creative work from around the world, with a particular focus on local emerging writers. Now in its third year of operation, swim meet lit mag plans to continue expanding its catalogue, which is, and will always be, free to access. Each issue is framed by a swimming-related theme, to which the responses are always wonderfully surprising and diverse. 

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