Mark's book on the Pilbara highly praised

Though this blog is mainly my comments on the sustainable population debate, I have written a dozen books of poetry about a great range of subjects. I have just been sent the URL of a website that contains an article by the talented poet Petra White about my recent book Pilbara.

You'll find it at http://solongbulletin.tumblr.com/post/3335658105

Here is part of it:

In Australia, Mark O’Connor has been consciously and explicitly writing what is now known as ecopoetry since the mid-seventies. O’Connor’s poetry, about the ecology of a number of Australia’s natural regions including the Great Barrier Reef, the top end, various forests, and most recently the Pilbara, has always had a distinctive multi-faceted approach to the natural world, going beyond mere ‘nature poetry’ and taking in science, philosophy, history and semiotics. He has always been concerned with ethics.