Please enjoy this curated selection of poems from local writers: Jess Pritchard, Kin; Marian Spires, Tom Roberts; Katelin Farnsworth, Lyrebird; Leslie Almberg, Shifting; and Cameron Semmens, The Fern Cycle. 
 
Listen to each of these writers read their poem as you walk through this beautiful part of the forest. 
 
Writing ngurrak barring is a collection of works that responds to goranwarrabil (the Dandenong Ranges). Each one reminds us that places are formed as much from stories – written, told, coded, and sung – as from rock, soil, and plants. For millennia, goranwarrabil has been storied by the Traditional Owners and Custodians, the Wurundjeri people. Writing ngurrak barring brings together works by Wurundjeri and other First Nations artists, as a testament to their ongoing connection to Country. It also includes works by non-Indigenous writers with a connection to this place, to speak to the presence of newer stories that have coexisted or been contested here since colonisation.