Invasives: Unknitting Despair in a Tangled Landscape – Catherine Bush

Catherine Bush is the author of five novels, including Blaze
Island, Accusation, and Claire’s Head. She is an Associate
Professor and Coordinator of the Creative Writing MFA at the
University of Guelph and divides her time between Toronto and the
countryside of eastern Ontario. In this essay, Catherine tends to
the understory in a time of mounting ecological loss. As invasive
plants proliferate in a park near her childhood home in Toronto,
she considers her family’s own history as transplanted immigrants
and how acts of reciprocity and care for the land might unknit
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