Listening to Land offers us a moving testimony in poetry, reflection and art to the power of land in all its forms — plants, animals, water, earth, rock and the many generations of human inhabitants going back to the time of origins. Informed by multiple layers of knowledge — indigenous, scientific, philosophic — the authors of this collaborative work summon us to an understanding of all that is lost when a rich, diverse valley is needlessly drowned. Protesting against the raising of the Warragamba dam wall through this poetic act of collaborative art, Listening to land gathers the collective voice of a community speaking for what they cherish: earth in all its abundance known directly at local level. — Peter Boyle – Poet