‘Now, above the once-multicoloured land from which it rises, the watergaw can seem the broken shaft of a cultural and metaphysical message, a dray or chariot ascending but stalled mid-sky, and thereby implying not only the fall but a definitively tragic landing on hard, hoof-compacted, colour-leached, colonial ground.‘

Listen to Gregory Day, winner of The Nature Conservancy Australia’s 2021 Nature Writing Prize read his winning piece ‘The watergaw’. 

Griffith Review is honoured to exclusively publish this work.

Gregory Day reading The Watergaw – exclusively published by Griffith Review

How can we hold together big ambition for social change on issues like climate alongside the small work required to build powerful connections across our diversity and difference? This piece explores the tensions of scale between big and small, fast and slow through stories and reflections across a life of organising. Our host Amanda Tattersall reads a memoir that she wrote for the Griffith Review in their August edition entitled Hey Utopia.

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Gregory Day reading The Watergaw – exclusively published by Griffith Review

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