Barry Lopez

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Morning Magazine,

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Monday 1st March

It wouldn’t be unreasonable to claim Barry Lopez is the most important living writer on the planet on the subject of nature, or to be precise, the wild.

It’s 32 years since his first landmark work Of Wolves and Men, and in the 1980s he wrote his most famous work, the remarkable Arctic Dreams, a book so vivid in its descriptions of that land and its people, which seems even more urgent now in a post climate change era.

He’s in Perth this long weekend for the Perth Writer’s Festival, and is presenting the closing address tonight Turning Darkness Into Light: The Literature of Hope.

He sat down with Patrick Pittman, who asked him if Australian audiences had a different response to his work than those from his home.