Hear me yarning about time, connection to Country, spiders, and the power of our more-than-human kin in the final of episode of Hark, season five of Threshold Podcast. You can listen on the Threshold website or wherever you get your podcasts (S5: Episode 16).

Fellow WA mob Bianca McNeair of Malgana Country (Shark Bay) and Clinton Walker of Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi Country feature in this episode too, along with two dolphin researchers, a Kenyan guide and a Métis poet. There’s a great story from the guide Tilas Lekango about surviving a night on his own in the bush when he was 9 when looking for his village who move with their livestock herds.

I’ve been really enjoying this season of Threshold, it’s all about listening to the non-human world, and features insights about animals, plants and weather from researchers, writers, creatives, and cultural practitioners.

Thanks to host Amy Martin for inviting me on!

About Threshold Season Five: Hark

“Humans are born into a wondrous planetary chorus. The whistles of dolphins. The trill of a bird. The pop and crackle of trees. But today, many of us rarely hear anything other than ourselves. In a world teeming with sound, what happens when a species only listens to itself?

Join us on a journey into the heart of a quiet revolution—a listening renaissance. We’ll meet a global community of listeners devoting their lives to paying attention to what other beings are saying. Flowers that can “hear” their pollinators. Coral larvae that use sound to find reefs. Turtles, long considered silent, with rich acoustic lives. And everywhere we listen, we discover there’s more to hear.

In this season of Threshold, we investigate what it means to listen to the nonhuman voices on our planet—and the cost if we don’t. With mounting social and ecological crises, we ask what happens when we tune into the life all around us.” –  from the Threshold website