This portfolio contributes to a growing body of research into walking and creativity. The six poems explore walking as an approach to place-attunement. Following the work of other perambulatory artists, I composed poetry about Western Australian landscapes perceived corporeally through walking. The poems express sensorial responses and, in particular, capture the nuances of my encounters with flora.

The expansion of human populations and the demands of technological growth have placed global pressures on wild communities of organisms. Accelerating declines in habitat and the pollution of air and water have led to an extinction crisis unprecedented in the history of three billion years of life on Earth. Biodiversity 'hotspots' such as the Southwest corner of Western Australia are particularly susceptible to the kinds of pressures and transformations ecological systems are undergoing worldwide.

Writings on landscape tend to express engrained human attitudes towards plants. The theme 'thinking about writing for the anthropocene' suggests that, for us to explore new models of writing landscape that give agency to plants, we need first to explore the philosophical underpinnings of our varied relationships to flora. This need is especially evident in the branch of ecological philosophy known as 'landscape' or 'environmental aesthetics'.

This portfolio of ten poems contributes to the areas of ecocriticism, nature writing and memory studies. Informed by cultural and ecopoetic theories, I applied creative, practice-led principles, including the use of sensory data and the keeping of a field journal, to the investigation of topographical memory in Australia and elsewhere.