Remembering Nature

Michael J. Leach lives on unceded Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Strathfieldsaye, Australia. Michael’s poems have appeared in journals such as Cordite Poetry Review, exhibitions such as the Antarctic Poetry Exhibition, anthologies such as Poetry d’Amour 2022: Love Poems (WA Poets Inc., 2022), and his two poetry books: Chronicity (Melbourne Poets Union, 2020) and Natural Philosophies (Recent Work Press, 2022). Michael’s poems have also won or been shortlisted/commended in the UniSA Mental Health and Wellbeing Poetry Competition (2015), Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine (2021), Minds Shine Bright Confidence Writing Competition (2022), and Woollahra Digital Literary Award (2023). During 2024, he will publish two new poetry books through In Case of Emergency Press and Ginninderra Press.