In perspective of “place theory”, this article analyzes the topics, pointsof view and language features in Fire Diary, “a poetry anthology by contemporaryAustralian poet Mark Tredinnick. Devoting to his place in both mental and physicalsense, the poet fuses natural and social landscapes with his lyricism and medita-tion”. With the strong consciousness of the inseparability of human and place, thepoet explores the question of being in his writing. In a contemporary context of theever intensified place-deprivation, his works inspire us to rethink the conno-tation of“eco-poetry”.