Readings

Join us to hear Alison Pouliot in conversation with Dave Witty about her new book, Funga Obscura.

This book is about fungi, and the photography of fungi. The title Funga Obscura unites the two. Beginning in elemental landscapes of ice and rock, the book traces the evolutionary path of fungi as enablers of life on land, and creators of soils and forests. Crossing continents and ecosystems, we navigate lichen-covered landscapes, crawl in the fungal undergrowth, scale glacial extremes and duck between rainforest shadows.

Alison Pouliot is an ecologist and environmental photographer with a focus on fungi. Her journeys in search of fungi span northern and southern hemispheres, ensuring two autumns and a double dose of fungi each year.

Dave Witty is the author of the acclaimed What the Trees See: A Wander Through Millennia of Natural History in Australia, which examines aspects of Australia’s history through our indigenous and non-indigenous trees. He is the recipient of the 2021 Rosina Joy Buckman Award in the Nature Conservancy Nature Writing Prize, and his work appears widely in Australian literary journals and publications. In 2024, he edited an anthology of Australian nature writing called On This Ground.

Free, but bookings are essential.

Please book here.