Songs from the Firefront by Tim Winton review – climate urgency verges on panic, with moments of wonder too

As reported by Guardian Australia · Updated 5 Nov, 21:00 · Archive

The masterful Australian writer has become a kind of prophet – and his dramatic and moving new essay collection challenges us not to look away Tim Winton has been working his themes for almost 50 years in a palimpsest of 32 books: family, manhood, land and ocean; what it is to be human and Australian; intimate pleasures and anxieties that feed his fiction. The distinctive quality of his new collection of memoir and essays, Songs from the Firefront, is urgency verging on panic. He’s an elder in his 60s, with limited time to get his messages across before we all go up in flames. Living on the…

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• Songs from the Firefront by Tim Winton review – climate urgency verges on panic, with moments of wonder tooThe masterful Australian writer has become a kind of prophet – and his dramatic and moving new essay collection challenges us not to look away Tim Winton has been working his themes for almost 50 years in a palimpsest of 32 books: family, manhood, land and ocean; what it is to be human and Australian; intimate pleasures and anxieties that feed his fiction. The distinctive quality of his new collection of memoir and essays, Songs from the Firefront, is urgency verging on panic. He’s an elder in his 60s, with limited time to get his messages across before we all go up in flames. Living on the…Guardian Australia · 5 Nov, 21:00