The Tiger Moth Review

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Centre for Stories (Perth, Australia)

In collaboration with the Centre for Stories, The Tiger Moth Review is working towards an online collection of eco-poems to be published on the journal’s website, come 2020.

Editor-in-chief and founder of The Tiger Moth Review, Esther Vincent Xueming will mentor a group of emerging Australian poets from the Centre, reading their poetry and providing critique to hone their craft. Through workshops with Robert Wood, Creative Director of Centre for Stories, as well as online interactions with Esther Vincent, writers will engage with the question of how their culture has influenced their relationship to nature, the environment and ecology, touching on themes of death, belonging, identity, justice and healing. As is the mission of both organisations, this collaboration will particularly emphasise representing a diversity of voices, especially from women of colour.

This project aims to connect the cultural ecologies of the two cities of Perth and Singapore, with the hope of creating new eco-conscious poems that resonate across geographical boundaries. Through this collaboration, we introduce readers to new voices, mapping out different ways we can respond to pertinent topics of climate change, culture, consumerism, environmental consciousness, all with a desire to better understand and articulate our relationship to the world we live in.