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Anne Elvey is a researcher and poet with an interest in ecological hermeneutics, ecopoetics and biblical studies.

• Extinction Elegies at Red Room Poetry

  By anneelvey on September 27, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  This month saw a great turn out for the climate strike on 20 September and Greta Thurnberg spoke to the UN about her generations’ future and the present and future of many others creatures facing extinction, or already extinct. How… Read More ›

• From Words to Action: September 20: Global Strike for Climate

  By anneelvey on August 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  We had a lovely launch last Wednesday 21 August 2019 of the current issue of Plumwood Mountain journal, ‘Intersecting Energies: Location, Gender, Climate‘, with beautiful readings from contributors. In particular it was great to hear commissioned poets Emily Munro Harrison… Read More ›

• Intersecting Energies – Launch and Reading – 21 August 2019

  By anneelvey on August 13, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  We are celebrating the launch of the current issue with a reading at The Alderman in East Brunswick on Wednesday 21 August 2019, 6.00pm for 6.30pm. Come along and bring a friend. All welcome.

• Intersecting Energies is live

  By anneelvey on July 31, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Plumwood Mountain Volume 6 Number 2 (August 2019) is now live on the theme, ‘Intersecting Energies: Location, Gender, Climate’, with new work from Emily Munro-Harrison, Ryan Prehn, Monica Jasmine Karo, Magan Magan, Lian Low, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Anne Casey,… Read More ›

• Books for review

  By anneelvey on July 17, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The Plumwood Mountain books available for review shelf is filling up. Though it may not look it, we have around 40 titles available for review just now. So take a look at the list of gems on offer and send… Read More ›

• The 2019 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize is now open

  By anneelvey on June 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

  The Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize in on again, and this year Holmgren Design is partnering with Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry.  Judges are Claire G Coleman and Kevin Brophy. The prize for a poem up to 80 lines… Read More ›

• Intersecting energies

  By anneelvey on May 24, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Thank you to all the poets who submitted poems for Plumwood Mountain vol 6 no 2: ‘Intersecting Energies: Location, Gender and Climate’. Poets are being notified of the outcome of their submissions by early June. Submissions will reopen in September… Read More ›

• Submissions are now open from 15 March to 1 May

  By anneelvey on March 15, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  As students across Australia rally in support of climate change action, we open our call for poetry submissions for the August 2019 issue of Plumwood Mountain journal ‘Intersecting Energies: Location, Gender and Climate’ edited by Anne Elvey. Please read the… Read More ›

• Earth@Peace and Just Art: An Evening of Art, Music and Poetry on ANZAC Eve

  By anneelvey on March 6, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Coming up on ANZAC Eve, Wednesday 24 April 2019, the Earth@Peace project teams up with MAPW (Medical Association for the Prevention of War) for an evening of art, music and poetry. This is part of a conference to explore the… Read More ›

• On the destruction of trees

  By anneelvey on February 13, 2019 • ( 0 )

  John Kinsella posted today this poem of sadness and anger at the destruction of trees on the Toodyay-Perth road: http://poetsvegananarchistpacifist.blogspot.com/ ‘we do not own the growth’ John says