High Fire Danger

'high fire danger' bears witness to the struggle humanity is facing as we recalibrate the world as we have come to know it - in these unsettling times of wild weather events and a changing climate.upright / hands firmly grasping / while all around him / a sky of fire blows / sidewaysThis ecopoetry collection of poems is written in response to the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-2020. Vignettes, written from different perspectives, allow the reader to move beyond the news bites that confront us every day, to a more spacious consideration of our collective grief and the many ways our lives have been impacted by changing weather patterns.Panu Pihkala, 'in their article Climate Grief: How we mourn a changing planet' recognises that eco-anxiety and climate grief are profoundly interlinked. 'If grief is not recognised, it can manifest itself as anxiety.' Pihkala cites the work of grief researchers Worden and Attig who speak of 'relearning the world' as the world we've come to know shifts and changes. Finding ways to grieve our losses is an important step toward making sense of the new world we find ourselves in and equipping ourselves to navigate unfamiliar terrain. Trenorden's hope, in sharing these poems, is to contribute to the important dialogue that allows for a process of collective grieving in turbulent times.