Following The River Home with Ella Bancroft

About this episode

Ella Bancroft discusses the connection between mental health and the health of rivers, drawing on her experiences as a Bundjalung activist and poet.

Is there a relationship between unwell minds and unwell rivers? Is there a connection between crime and corrupted waterways? Ella Bancroft is a poet, an advocate, an activist, a potent voice full of vigour, love and fury. Most of all Ella Bancroft is Bundjalung, deeply connected to her ancestral lands and the water that gives her home its name. This is a story of weaving ourselves back into the fabric from which we were all born and have been so damagingly unpicked from – the great tapestry ...

People in this episode

Guest: Ella Bancroft

Topics covered

• mental health
• environment
• poetry
• activism
• indigenous culture

Keywords

• Bundjalung
• waterways
• crime
• ancestral lands

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The River Home

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