Fossilised Lightning

Fossilised Lightning explores interactions with natural forces and celebrates the mysterious messiness of Earth's ecosystems. It embeds humans in the natural world, evokes Earth's sensory gifts, and moves beyond nature poetry into ecopoetry by advocating for renewed environmental relationships.With these poems the authors weave an expedition through underworlds and overworlds, enhancing planetary awareness by way of plant cocktails, rogue atoms, snake temples, seaweed jewels, and restless stars, and striving to shift reader consciousness just as the writing shifted theirs.Fossilised Lightning is print published by Girls on Key Poetry 2021.Fuelling this tour-de-force collaboration between Nicole Rain Sellers and Rebecca Trowbridge is balance-on-the-high-beam writing that's nevertheless "e;tethered wholly to earth."e; Its deeply imagined world of natural forces is both intimately factual and mythic in reach. Biology, geology, bodies, spirits, hearts, minds – it's all there, transformed by high-energy writing into crawling, flowing, biting, swarming, dying, growing, skittering life.- Ross GillettThis collaborative venture of innovative poetics and commitment to living with justice to the earth shines with evocation like magic.- Phillip HallIn light of this precarious time of threat to our planetary life-support systems, environmental poetics of this kind are curiously (and perhaps necessarily) unsettling. Nicole Rain Sellers and Rebecca Trowbridge have a gift for imaginative language and their poems are exciting to read.- Cassandra O'LoughlinGeology meets mythology in this collection of beautifully crafted insights into the earth and its undercurrents.- Kelly BaxterTable of Contents:Come for a SwimWood Wide WebGreen Point Loop TrackCacti's PrioritiesGraceAwed: May I Serve You?How to Become a FountainLichen SerenadeSeclusionThe Snake TempleOde to My Axial SkeletonWhat They Might SingDégustationExcretaLady Firebrand Calls the Sea by NameMama CrocodileSong for ClíodhnaBlack SmokerSun CoatSkitterConquestDead Ghost Gums in the Paddock Seem to PoseAll There IsBoabA Difficult BondSleeping CowShepherd's WarningVerses on a Crushed Egg CartonThe ExosphereShe Who Unbraids TimeBetter Than RagePapa GondwanaAuthor Note – Nicole Rain SellersAuthor Note – Rebecca Trowbridge