Gregory Day

Gregory Day won the Patrick White Award in 2020. His book of essays, Words Are Eagles: Selected Writings on the Nature and Language of Place, will be published by Upswell in July. Photo: Simon O'Dwyer.

Works By Gregory Day

In The Country of the Written Page
Here we observe the translator as a heightened inhabitant of her own world via someone else’s language.
22 May. 2022
The War on Life: Animalia
What seemed like it was going to be a finely worked piece of anti-pastoral art is confused by a gestural obviousness akin to stadium rock.
20 Aug. 2019
Betraying the Loch: Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
It is a quandary of the currently abounding place-literature that by bringing such softening frames to so-called ‘wild’ places, and by writing so charmingly about them, authors are in fact robbing these places of the ‘wildness’ and the psychogeog...
22 May. 2015
The submerged moon: Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
Intrinsic to Tóibín’s work, from The South and The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe through to Nora Webster, is a social realist reformulation of what were known in Catholic circles, once upon a time, as ‘holy mysteries’. You will fin...
2 Dec. 2014

Works Featuring Gregory Day

Born Into A Language-Creature
Take any one instance of Day’s work, any single essay, and for the sake of comparison you’d struggle to find a writer as impassioned by words, by diction and syntax, and as agog with wonder at natural phenomena at every scale beyond the human.
16 Oct. 2022