Understorey: Wording the Wheatbelt pt2

The agricultural crescent from Geraldton to Esperance is “Like Nothing Else on Earth," says literary historian Tony Hughes-D’Aeth.  Once that part of the South West had unique ecological values, but they have been upturned by European farming practices, leaving only a smattering of the original habitats hidden amongst the wheatbelt paddocks. While not even a thousand novels can replace one extinct species, Tony Hughes-D’Aeth says that creative writers can bring alternative visions to our shared wheatbelt experience, witnessing a vision beyond economic gains, freshly valuing the wider social and environmental attributes of place. (Photo: Tony Hughes-D'Aeth, by A.Glamorgan) Wording the Wheatbelt pt 2